Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive

Re:Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive by beobab on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:47AM (#19450192)

That's not quite accurate. The law allows you to legitimately ask for permission to share the data for advertising purposes, but you have to be transparent with the details, and the advertiser has to have the same safeguards on the data as your company (they aren't allowed to re-sell it without the original company's knowledge, for example).

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Re:Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive by kruczek on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:36AM (#19450384)

That's not fully accurate either. All that you wrote is true, but user's permission must be freely given - this means access to the service cannot be restricted if user refuses to give permission (as long as that permission isn't strictly required to provide the service itself, but then probably permission is not the right basis for processing data).

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Re:Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive by beobab on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:59AM (#19450862)

Agreed.

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Re:Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive by bryanrasmussen on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:53AM (#19450473)

I used the word prerequisite for a reason - you can ask for permission, but you can't try to force permission by withholding the service.

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