New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers

Re:New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cooki... by ClumsyPilot on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:50AM (#29623797)

>"The reason to allow data transfer to the US for (arguably) trivial data is that a private entity might choose Akamai as their subjectively best option"

And what if it's China/Russia, and its 'best' because it pays for private data? Does the argument still hold?

At the end of the day, this is simple: is it my data, or not? If it's my property, why should someone elae have freedom over it?

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Re:New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cooki... by mellavora on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:08AM (#29623950)

Or, for a not-far-fetched example, say the data goes to a country where 1) you have relatives, and 2) homosexuality is a capital offense,

and your search results may be use to implicate you of homosexuality, or by extension your relatives in that country, and the country's police are monitoring search histories.

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Re:New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cooki... by ClumsyPilot on Monday December 20, 2021 @12:01PM (#29627063)

Actually that is an excellent point, this is a real possibility for immigrants from the middle east and some other places

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