Re:Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by...
by atoav on Saturday September 09, 2023 @08:04AM
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Sorry but you are getting this wrong.
1. Certain rights cannot be easily waived depending where you live — this requires "informed consent". Informed consent means you laid out what you are collecting and for which purposes clearly and in easy language — and that I consented to that.
2. Implying consent through action ala "by entering these doorsteps you have signed away your firstborn child" doesn't work.
3. At least under the GDPR not consenting shall not lead to a worse service.
If I enter the car of some guy and his cars manual (available only as pdf download) says on page 234 that he automatically consents to this by using the car, the manufacturer did neither gain his, nor my informed consent.
This is illegal under the GDPR — a law that doesn't only apply to cookie banners and the internet, but to any form of data collection.
1. Certain rights cannot be easily waived depending where you live — this requires "informed consent". Informed consent means you laid out what you are collecting and for which purposes clearly and in easy language — and that I consented to that.
2. Implying consent through action ala "by entering these doorsteps you have signed away your firstborn child" doesn't work.
3. At least under the GDPR not consenting shall not lead to a worse service.
If I enter the car of some guy and his cars manual (available only as pdf download) says on page 234 that he automatically consents to this by using the car, the manufacturer did neither gain his, nor my informed consent.
This is illegal under the GDPR — a law that doesn't only apply to cookie banners and the internet, but to any form of data collection.