No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body

Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by kungato on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:24AM (#23091276)

But does it mean you opted out? To me it sounds like you entered undefined behavior territory and probably accepted everything

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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by levosmetalo on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:57AM (#23091670)

Consent needs to be explicit or there's no consent. Otherwise, we'd be back in the days of putting a message on the site telling "by using our website you accept our ToS and need to give use your firstborn child".

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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by gpm on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:49AM (#23091584)

GDPR is opt in not out. If they're tracking you when you do that they're breaking the law.

Also, they're probably breaking the law.

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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by crankylinuxuser on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:41AM (#23091479)

I live in the USA, the country of caveat emptor and 'who cares about citizens, anyway?'.

If I was a European citizen, then I believe by default I did not allow anything. They would be in abeyance of the GDPR if they were to track or identify me.

If I can jam up even a bit of tracking with a PiHole, ublock origin, privacy badger, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Containers, and more, good on me. Im already inexorably tied to google at the moment, and working to remove myself from their ties.

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