Re:Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web
by Despegar on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:43PM
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They wouldn't mandate any specific technology, but it makes it infinitely more likely that Congress would pass a GDPR clone when they are confident that doing so wouldn't just destroy every web publisher's business. And it certainly disarms any disingenuous arguments by the ad-tech lobbyists along those lines.
That is the basis of a good law (prohibit a specific behavior, not the implementation thereof). In that lens though, Apple's proposal is a solution in search of legislation, which screams "regulatory capture" to me - another reason I'm against it.