Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us...
by jstummbillig on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:44AM
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> Sounds fair to me.
The part that is tricky, is where we offload additional burden of knowledge and responsibility to the website providers.
When it is on the user to figure out whether they are allowed to use a product – and that means in fact any product – that one of the biggest companies in the world is allowed to offer in my country legally, we are in trouble.
Law is complex. Tech is complicated. Most people are not law or tech experts. Getting sound advice on both is expensive, and the trend to increasingly need more of both is worrisome.
This seems neither fair nor reasonable to me. Or particularly democratic.
The part that is tricky, is where we offload additional burden of knowledge and responsibility to the website providers.
When it is on the user to figure out whether they are allowed to use a product – and that means in fact any product – that one of the biggest companies in the world is allowed to offer in my country legally, we are in trouble.
Law is complex. Tech is complicated. Most people are not law or tech experts. Getting sound advice on both is expensive, and the trend to increasingly need more of both is worrisome.
This seems neither fair nor reasonable to me. Or particularly democratic.