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Re:ViennaSuperiorCourt: Facebook can skip GDPR consent but m... by vmception on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:02AM (#25582779)
this is the same as before GDPR, this seems like the judge didn't know what the purpose of GDPR was?? or maybe Austria's legislative implementation of GDPR really does allow this much latitude.
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Re:ViennaSuperiorCourt: Facebook can skip GDPR consent but m... by tom_mellior on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:43AM (#25583181)
GDPR is a regulation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union) ), which means that it applies directly. The ruling also refers to various sections of GDPR directly. There is no local legislative implementation of regulations; you are thinking of directives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union) ), of which GDPR is not one.
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Re:ViennaSuperiorCourt: Facebook can skip GDPR consent but m... by vmception on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:14PM (#25583508)
Okay. Is there anything rational about what this judge in Vienna did?
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Re:ViennaSuperiorCourt: Facebook can skip GDPR consent but m... by the_mitsuhiko on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:45PM (#25583853)
The judge originally even didn’t want to rule on the case. It looks very much they wanted the case to go to a different court and have nothing to do with it.
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