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Re:CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google by mortehu on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:22PM (#18963737)
There's no penalty for prompting when consent is not needed, so everyone just decided to prompt of their own volition to minimize legal risk. The law doesn't force sites to prompt, but it effectively forces users to answer prompts.

See also: California's prop 65.

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Re:CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google by xg15 on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:31PM (#18964637)
I wouldn't actually mind that. What does annoy me is that most prompts are heavily biased to make you give consent - e.g., declining is made a lot harder than just blanket accepting.

The reasons for those are obvious and somewhat understandable from the companies' POV. Nevertheless, I don't see how a prompt employing dark patterns constitutes free and informed consent.

As such, I'm glad this descision seem to go in the same direction.

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Re:CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google by cr0sh on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:01PM (#18971845)
If you want to see "hilarity" in regards to California's Prop 65, take a look at this surplus electronics vendor:

https://www.allelectronics.com/

...while not apparent on the main page (I'm sure they'll fix this in time), if you click on any item, no matter which item, there will be a little "Prop 65" warning notice, with a link to this page (rendered as a dialog):

https://www.allelectronics.com/cms/ca_warning/ca-warning/1.h...

The print catalog is even funnier, if you receive it - every single spot of a component or part has the Prop 65 warning.

Someone should print up a bunch of "Prop 65" stickers, and plaster them on everything in California (for all I know, they are already doing this).

It's all kinda absurd.

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Re:CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google by DanBC on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:04PM (#18964456)
Sure, but that's different to saying the law forces you to gain opt-in consent if you use cookies.
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