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Re:FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location ... by nox101 on Monday April 29, 2024 @05:55PM (#40204586)
The EU didn't get this right - or else they aren't enforcing it. I'm in the EU right now and the crap I see is a popup "We respect your privacy. Us and 352 (not an exaggeration!) of our partners are collecting data on you. Approve or Details?" Pick details and you can spend your time going through the partners

https://pasteboard.co/rrL2bpmiE6Zq.png

And most you can't reject

Even more hilarious. pageboard itself said 847 partners!

https://pasteboard.co/XQHhPzTw42Pv.png

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Re:FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location ... by immibis on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:23PM (#40205379)
This is mostly unenforced, as it WAS ruled that it must be as easy to reject as to accept. However, they're going after "consent to ads or buy a subscription" which I thought was a pretty fair compromise business model.
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Re:FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location ... by Maarten88 on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:41PM (#40205543)
I'm generally okay with Ads, that is fair. But I'm not okay with tracking, consolidating data about me from different sources, analyzing it and selling that. It is too hard to understand how that may impact me and others.
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Re:FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location ... by ethbr1 on Monday April 29, 2024 @09:26PM (#40206298)
Imho, the problem with "consent to ads or buy a subscription" is that it becomes the new CableCARD [0].

I.e. all companies really want to be in the business of tracking customers, because they can repackage derivative products and increase their revenue.

So the "subscription" option ends up experiencing a lack of support, mysterious technical issues, underinvestment, etc.

End result, customers don't choose it, which businesses use to lobby for further eroding mandates.

You can't force a company to provide and support a product they don't want to. You can force them to turn one off.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD

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