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Re:Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track? by excalibur on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:05PM (#18631652)
Correct for the vast majority of users, but the lawyers have been known to disagree on the lack of teeth.
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Re:Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track? by mpweiher on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:09PM (#18631692)
Depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany, for example, such terms of service have little to no teeth.

We have pretty strict laws about what can be in ToS and what cannot. For example, pretty much anything that's "surprising" is out.

This used to be the AGB-Gesetz (ToS-Law), but it was transformed into a more general framework but largely identical rules:

https://www.buzer.de/s1.htm?g=BGB&a=305-310

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