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Re:Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws by lovich on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:17AM (#17153352)
If companies successfully argue that maximising revenue is a legitimate interest and thus, don't need users consent, then the GPDR will worth less the paper it was written on.

I would be extremely surprised if the EU goes through all this tome, effort, and money just to let corporations continue with business as usual

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Re:Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws by hshehehjdjdjd on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:30AM (#17153479)
Eu cookie law is one prior example of this. That worked out to “business as usual” in the end, didn’t it?
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Re:Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws by jacquesm on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:27AM (#17154612)
Think of the GDPR as a bug-fix release to remove the loopholes those legal hackers used.
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Re:Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws by gkya on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:38AM (#17154734)
Nope. It was a nice step that showed everyone how even the most unexpected website tracks you with some cookies.
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Re:Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws by merinowool on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:47AM (#17153633)
> I would be extremely surprised if the EU goes through all this tome, effort, and money just to let corporations continue with business as usual

I wouldn't. EU is all about bureaucracy and hordes of civil servants doing meaningless jobs. If GDPR becomes fruitless like Cookie Law, then they'll say tough luck, hire more civil servants and start working on another useless law.

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Re:Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws by blub on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:52AM (#17153681)
There was a lot of lobbying done to water down the GDPR.

But on the other hand, corporations are all about unscrupulous behaviour and doing the minimum possible (if that) to claim they respect the law. If the GDPR works, they'll just hire more lobbyists.

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Re:Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws by merb on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:25AM (#17153437)
> I would be extremely surprised if the EU goes through all this tome, effort, and money just to let corporations continue with business as usual

trust me, you didn't see what the eu already gone through, just to keep existing.

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