Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by wkat4242 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:49PM (#35417143)

> Nobody went out on the streets because they wanted cookie prompts. We are just letting bureaucrats run the show and tell us we should like it

Umm I do advocate for privacy. And I know many people that do. Feelings about GDPR are generally very positive.

But nobody wanted cookie prompts. They are the result of a shortsighted compromise.

What the EU should have done is simply forbid user tracking or make the user take action if they want to be tracked, no not tracking should be the default. Pop-up questions should have been explicitly forbidden.

However the industry knows that nobody wants to be tracked. And feared a loss of income. So they campaigned to weaken the law. The EU officials in their stupidity agreed. Stupid yes because now the industry blames them for the abundant cookie walls.

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by toyg on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:43AM (#35418985)

Not stupid, sadly - corrupt. I bet most of the MEPs that voted on that directive are now retired with a fat pension, made even fatter by some "consulting gig" from the folks that wanted that law weakened.

Unfortunately this is nothing new. Democracy has its problems.

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