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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by rocqua on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:12AM (#23758831)
The law isn't unenforceable. The law is unenforced.

The reason it is unenforced is that the agencies that seem to have the responsibility to do so are understaffed and afraid of the drawn out litigation and political backlash.

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by vertex-four on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:33AM (#23760276)
A ruling that some of these dark patterns are valid would be a disaster to the people trying to enforce these laws, so undoubtedly they're trying to build a watertight case to prove them invalid - knowing that the companies they're trying to enforce against have ridiculous amounts of funding and entire businesses will fall if the enforcers win.

All this on top of the larger concerns in the GDPR - for example, companies that, once they've collected data for one purpose, proceed to process it for another purpose without any legal basis at all.

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