Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit...
by ocdtrekkie on Saturday May 05, 2018 @08:40PM
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I will generally indeed be more inclined to interact with EU sites since I know they are GDPR compliant. I'd honestly be really tempted to VPN to Europe so that US companies think I'm an EU citizen too.
The most interesting thing to me about this whole ordeal is which companies only comply in Europe, where they're legally required, and those who have gone ahead and made sure they are compliant globally: It defines the difference between people ensuring your privacy rights because they have to, where they have to, and those ensuring your privacy rights globally because it's the right thing to do.
Google's AMP project just introduced a whole set of new features not just to mark whether or not an EU user has consented to tracking, but also a new feature to geolocate users, specifically for the purpose of determining if they're legally required to get that consent. Which is sad to me; they should be getting user consent everywhere.
The most interesting thing to me about this whole ordeal is which companies only comply in Europe, where they're legally required, and those who have gone ahead and made sure they are compliant globally: It defines the difference between people ensuring your privacy rights because they have to, where they have to, and those ensuring your privacy rights globally because it's the right thing to do.
Google's AMP project just introduced a whole set of new features not just to mark whether or not an EU user has consented to tracking, but also a new feature to geolocate users, specifically for the purpose of determining if they're legally required to get that consent. Which is sad to me; they should be getting user consent everywhere.