Re:TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across E...
by avianlyric on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:02PM
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> This is a poor law because it has to be done on every website.
The law doesn’t require this, it only requires informed consent.
> I think it may be better to have this as a decision the user chooses once within their browser, and the browser can then pass along the intention to the website. There can maybe also be a third option
This is would be an allowable approach under GDPR. Someone just needs to build it and make it happen. Unfortunately the “do-not-track” debacle shows that ad companies aren’t interested in playing ball. Hence our current mess.
The law doesn’t require this, it only requires informed consent.
> I think it may be better to have this as a decision the user chooses once within their browser, and the browser can then pass along the intention to the website. There can maybe also be a third option
This is would be an allowable approach under GDPR. Someone just needs to build it and make it happen. Unfortunately the “do-not-track” debacle shows that ad companies aren’t interested in playing ball. Hence our current mess.