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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by gzer0 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:32AM (#25289153)
The TOS of any European company cannot supersede the law of the European Union.

Example; how one individual singlehandedy forced the hands of Spotify to reverse an API decision they made blocking the export of your playlists. Note how Spotify thinks their TOS supersedes the GDPR. It does not. Otherwise, we would have corporations directly creating laws.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371

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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by mattmanser on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:50AM (#25289350)
The trouble with the GDPR seems to be that it relies on government enforcement.

For example the UK's enforcement arm, the ICO, recently found that the adtech industry was in violation of the GDPR, then did nothing:

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-ico-must-fix-the-ad...

As far as I know, I can't personally sue these companies for this, and if the ICO does nothing then what's the law is meaningless.

The follow up from the Open Rights Group is here:

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/parliament-must-hold-th...

If you care about privacy in the UK, please donate to ORG, I started a direct debit years ago and have always been impressed with their work and focus:

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/

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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by karlp on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:19AM (#25289623)
> As far as I know, I can't personally sue these companies for this, and if the ICO does nothing then what's the law is meaningless.

Couldn't you sue ICO then?

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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by plett on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:44PM (#25293646)
Yes. That's what the Open Rights Group are doing, and they want donations to help with it.

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/help-us-protect-your-data...

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