German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding

Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by rsynnott on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:20AM (#38083062)

... You're aware that the UK also has courts, which regularly discover rolling new vistas of law, right? Like, the idea that manufacturers have a duty to not make unsafe products (not just in the UK; this was internationally influential) derives in large part from someone finding a snail in a bottle of lemonade a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson

I mean, what you're complaining about here is how ~all vaguely modern legal systems work, not anything special about the EU.

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Re:German court declares Do Not Track to be legally binding by nvm0n2 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:14PM (#38091464)

There's a long history of activist courts attempting to legislate from the bench. That doesn't make it good, right or that it's just how a modern legal system works. It's clearly not intended to work that way, but vague and badly written law sometimes allows it regardless.

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