Someone should invent a http header that lets you signal that you don't want to be tracked. It could be named something like DNT, for do-not-track. People could then set DNT=1 and websites such as Facebook would know not to track you...
- it was on by default. You shouldn't have to 'opt-out' of invasive surveillance.
- it was enforceable and backed by a vigilant regulator and credibly enforced legal deterrents. We're far beyond a 'pinky-promise' being enough.
Conmppanies did not liked when IE did this but I think the solution would be simple, when you start the browser for the first time you will be asked if you want to get tracked or not, you will have 2 big buttons to chose.
Then FB. Google and others should ask the users to switch this because they want to track you on a different website and explain to the users why.
That's the wrong question to ask. You shouldn't have to tell it not to track you. That shouldn't be able to do it, unless you explicitly tell them "hey you can track me."
Google, Criteo and other have long had a default opt-in policy for their retargeting products, etc.
Or is my sarcasm sensor not working this morning?
By not having a fucking Facebook account! it seems to me that's actually the crux of that court decision.
It's more complicated than deciding not to have a Facebook account, though that's a great first step.
Since I'm not a member of their service there's no valid reason for them to maintain personally identifiable data about me. Let alone that they never asked for my permission and that I never, ever consented to their gobling up of my data and that of other non-members.
At least according to my understanding this is a very clear violation of the GDPR, which - if the courts agree - could cost them dearly.
I wonder how Facebook intends to deal with that. If I interprete the directive correctly they are obliged to delete all such data since storing, mainting and proecssing it clearly violates the law.
Interesting times...
>all of which upload your personal data from the phones to their own servers without your knowledge or consent.
Our default legal position shouldn’t be one of accommodating a corporation’s existing market-acquisition practices over people’s privacy.
I'd think the most pro-privacy reasonable approach would be to stop companies from identifying them beyond "someone who did not consent to being tracked".
Facebook has such incredible smart engineers that they can file patents to identify you based on the dust of your camera lens [1]. It should be a cinch to them not to track such third parties in any way, shape or form.
The problem was that they gave zero fucks about the privacy implication to third parties, which have nothing to do - and no business relationship with Facebook. It seems quite the opposite: That the go through great length to maintain shadow profiles and track everybody.
I really hope that the GDPR forces them to clean up their act.
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-th...
For instance, it could still be legal for Facebook to slurp your friend's address book (and your profile, indirectly), but the regulation could require them to discard and purge that information if they can't immediately match it to an account.
There should also be a central place for us to put our emails there so spammers won't spam us?If this seems a horrible idea then your suggestion is exactly the same.
This the most G. K. Chesterton-esque comment I have ever read on this site.
Poe's law may apply, but if you're actually being serious, "Let's build a list tracking all the people who want to avoid tracking" first, probably wouldn't work, and second, is the surveillance equivalent of a "standards problem" [1]