Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by throw10920 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:59PM (#39612137)

> 1. Businesses trying to violate your privacy

This is false. The GDPR does not mandate privacy - the GDPR mandates the protection of certain kinds of personal data, much of which (e.g. IP addresses) has legitimate reasons for being collected (e.g. abuse protection). Claiming that every business that shows a cookie warning is trying to violate your privacy is not only objectively false, but extremely intellectually dishonest - although that's about par for the course for GDPR enthusiast zealots.

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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by sgift on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:34AM (#39614059)

You don't need cookie banners for IP addresses, so your whole example is completely wrong (who sets a cookie to store someones IP?). 99% of businesses that show a cookie banner do it to violate privacy. The remaining 1% didn't understand the law, thought they had to add a cookie banner, but didn't even have to. It's extremely intellectually dishonest to mix up logging and cookie banners, although that's about par for the course for anti-GDPR zealots.

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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by throw10920 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @08:46AM (#39615906)

I was referring to normal GDPR banners, not cookie banners. I didn't say anything about cookie banners in my comment. I'm not sure there's even much of a distinction, and my point holds anyway, because their are legitimate uses of cookies that non-privacy-violating businesses use.

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