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Re:No Cookie for You by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:15PM (#25461229)
Yes, and it's not like the EU is going to send surprise inspections to go dig into Microsoft's code and databases to check whether they are violating this or not?
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Re:No Cookie for You by rlpb on Thursday December 17, 2020 @10:39PM (#25463536)
They don't send surprise inspections to your house to check if you're engaging in criminal activity, either.

My point is that you're moving the goalposts. Law enforcement generally always requires a complaint that justifies an investigation, and people and organisations get away with breaking the law all the time. However that has nothing to do with whether or not GitHub put their website behind a "consent" wall, or whether or not they're doing in-house as opposed to contracted-out analytics.

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Re:No Cookie for You by BlueTemplar on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:07AM (#25464938)
I'm not moving the goalposts. Aren't you aware that some businesses get regular inspections, which do not require any complaints?
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Re:No Cookie for You by fwip on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:31PM (#25462368)
Sure, but it's also likely that Microsoft's lawyers allowed the Github team to do this if they didn't think that Github was still in compliance.
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