Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by kelnos on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:49PM (#21019960)

It might be a matter of semantics? You can quote a standard price, and then give a discount for allowing data collection, but you can't quote a standard price, and then add a surcharge for disallowing data collection.

I agree that there is no practical difference between the two, but given how deceptive companies can be when disclosing various pricing and hidden fees, this might be an attempt to curb that behavior?

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by nabnob on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:02PM (#21020118)

There's definitely a difference in outcomes between

1) allowing customers to opt-in to data collection by giving a them reward. In this case, the default behavior does not involve data collection

2) allowing customers to opt out of data collection by paying a penalty. In this case, the default behavior involves data collection.

People usually don't bother to opt out.

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