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Re:Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy by Aardwolf on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:03PM (#18077309)
Before the cookie law websites did not have annoying useless cookie popups though, so it's an unintended consequence
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Re:Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy by Aengeuad on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:31PM (#18078889)
Most bigger websites and websites hosted in EU did have useless cookie warnings that they didn't need before the GDPR.
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Re:Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy by s73v3r_ on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:25PM (#18077566)
No, it's more the bratty kid on the playground who isn't getting their way, so they're throwing a fit and threatening to take their ball and go home.
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Re:Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy by Aardwolf on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:50PM (#18078493)
There's a lot of bratty kids then, most of the articles linked to by hacker news are on sites with cookie warnings for example. Not sure if those are visible in the US, but in the EU they are, and they are very annoying
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Re:Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy by yarrel on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:37PM (#18077697)
Avoiding big fines isn't throwing a fit.
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Re:Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy by true_religion on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:53PM (#18077866)
I agree. For all that people say there is nothing to worry about, these are fines that would be levied by foreign governments so a company may not really have insight to how likely it is they will be fined.

It's a lot easier for a government to fine a foreign corp than to fine a local one whose workers are all voters and tax payers.

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