Re:Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent use...
by mildmotive on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:38PM
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> I thought the GDPR didn't allow signing away of privacy? Because if it does, then it's utterly useless - every webpage comes with a 100-page terms of service these days.
If that was the case Europeans wouldn’t have been able to use services like Facebook or iCloud.
> In fact the European Court of Justice declared that illegal
For example, Sweden did it shortly after an ISP Bahnhof advertised to its customers that it would not save logs. What seemed at the time to have fuelled this whole thing was mostly entertainment companies pushing these policies against European countries to crack down on piracy. Obviously an unsuccessful project. Many of our politicians traded our freedoms for the sake of the entertainment industry not losing money (supposedly). It didn’t serve its purpose, rather it just gave the government(s) more power over the people.
If that was the case Europeans wouldn’t have been able to use services like Facebook or iCloud.
> In fact the European Court of Justice declared that illegal
For example, Sweden did it shortly after an ISP Bahnhof advertised to its customers that it would not save logs. What seemed at the time to have fuelled this whole thing was mostly entertainment companies pushing these policies against European countries to crack down on piracy. Obviously an unsuccessful project. Many of our politicians traded our freedoms for the sake of the entertainment industry not losing money (supposedly). It didn’t serve its purpose, rather it just gave the government(s) more power over the people.