Re:UK to depart from GDPR
by switch007 on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:42AM
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I have never observed a non-techie do anything other than blindly click the call to action (i.e. agree to everything). The entire scheme seems sneakily designed to actually encourage users to give more and explicit consent, avoiding the situation where consent was a grey area. It seems to have been spun to a great extent.
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> The entire scheme seems sneakily designed to actually encourage users to give more and explicit consent
The law itself says that the default option should be to opt-out. Any site that doesn't have precisely equally prominent "agree to all" and "deny all" buttons violate the GDPR.
The problem seems to be in the complete lack of enforcement.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR
by devonbleak on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:34AM
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My biggest annoyance lately is having to go set my cookie preferences on every. single. site. If only there was some sort of browser standard that I could set in the preferences there and sites would just obey it....
Remember P3P?
You mean like how we've been able to set cookie behavior in the browser since cookies were invented?
Konqueror even had "confirm cookies" as default for a while back then.
I think they're referencing the Do Not Track header.