Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by scarejunba on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:48PM
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No one's performed a proper survey AFAIK, but the GDPR opt-out rate is very very low, which provides weak evidence. This is not evidence of numbers, but I have an existence proof in that I also personally know a lot of people who know and insist on not opting out.
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by gpderetta on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:24PM
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> GDPR opt-out rate is very very low,
Then again GDPR requires opt-in, but most sites ignore that and many make the opt out extremely time consuming.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by 100100010001 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:17PM
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Your proof is that you “personally know a lot of people who know and insist on not opting out”? That’s anecdotal evidence at best (aka not proof).
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by scarejunba on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:46PM
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This is a confusing interpretation of what I said:
> This is not evidence of numbers, but I have an existence proof in that I also personally know a lot of people who know and insist on not opting out.
Most people I know would interpret that as "I know I'm not the only one because". After all, I specifically say "not evidence of numbers" and I also specifically say "existence proof". I find your response baffling.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by afiori on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:03AM
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At best this proves that this law is harmless.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by scarejunba on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:48PM
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I don't think the law is harmful. I'm considering the absence of opt-outs and the general prevalence of opt-ins evidence of people not being eager to opt-out.