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Re:Three major LLM releases in 24 hours by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:09AM (#39989351)
This comment always gets downvoted, but I have seen this happen in my previous company. They hired an expensive lawyer from Europe for GDPR compliance and even his suggestions didn't made sense and in the end we decided to geoblock Europe. e.g. EU didn't clearly banned consent rejection requiring more effort and just skirted around it and that's why every company have two step rejection and one step acceptance.

They could have easily made law requiring sites accept DNT header but they didn't likely because of lobbying.

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Re:Three major LLM releases in 24 hours by saikia81 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:31AM (#39989956)
The first part of your comment lacks understanding of how and why the consent rejection has been worded as it has. If you want to comply it is easy. But if a company wants to skirt the regulation it is written such that the regulatory body can still get you for making it harder.

DNT is not relevant as GDPR is not directly a regulation against tracking, and it certainly isn't because of lobbying.

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Re:Three major LLM releases in 24 hours by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:44PM (#39992770)
Not only I don't understand it, the top tier European law firm the company hired also didn't understood it. The law ALLOWS companies to skirt around it. I don't know if that's intentional or not.

> If you want to comply it is easy.

That's the entire antithesis of modern law as opposed to monarchy. Law should be codified in as clear rules as possible.

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