Google, you have 90 days to stop tracking web users, then Windows will start asking desktop users if they would like to block tracking by filtering DNS requests
"Google, we believe in our user's right to privacy and are looking for ways to improve their experience on our platforms. Due to your non-compliance with the upcoming GDPR and past misdeeds we have classified all your services as spyware and will be protecting our users accordingly should you fail to address this matter in 90 days from now.
Kisses, Microsoft."
They had an opportunity to actually hurt Google by blocking tracking scripts long ago with their "Do Not Track" feature enabled by default in its browser. And they wasted it by simply asking advertisers like Google nicely if they'd like to stop tracking users or not (you'll never guess what happened next!).
Microsoft has already been found violating previous and less strict EU privacy laws recently. I think Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon - they'll all end-up paying big fines in the EU within 18 months after the GDPR passes, because neither take it seriously enough and they still think they can use "angles" to trick the regulators as well as users into getting that data without real consent. They can't, and they'll learn it the hard way.
Oh, and the Privacy Shield will likely fall by the end of the year, too. So brace yourselves, it's going to be a wild ride for these privacy violators.
Taxing the large companies is difficult, because of individual countries (like Ireland and Netherlands) free-riding to attract investment, while hurting all other EU members. "Tragedy of the Commons" that sort of thing.
This applies to all companies, everywhere. The problem is that the EU don't close their loopholes.
I doubt it. The fines will be completely irrelevant, and they won't even need to notify more than 1% of their lawyers and lobbyists to ensure they can keep it up for the next decade.
And let me explain "draft it". They lobbied. The proof for that is fb and ggl attack on Canada to prevent legalising something similar as GDPR.
Please (PLEASE, FOR GOD SAKE!), stop beeing protective to corporations, either FB, CocaCola, Tesla, Google or whatever comes to your mind. None is have priority in making world a better place, their only priority is money and power and money and they do not care about you more then a milking cow. If you disagree, you have fundamential lack of understanding how world functions.
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The opposite is true, despite Google having lobbied during the drafting. The entire premise of how google makes money conflicts with GDPR.
Microsoft making it default felt less like something to help consumers and more just bandwagoning. Whether or not DNT was particularly effective as a means of __blocking__ tracking has always been irrelevant. The point was the __message__ sent by those who enabled it.
This is pretty blatant re-writing of history. DNT was a piss poor standard that relied on advertisers respecting it. As soon as Microsoft put it on by default they got shit on endlessly for it, and advertisers just bailed anyway.
again, HN was upset at Microsoft for doing it.
Honest question, why is Google not in compliance with GDPR?
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Imagine if DNS resolution on Windows was pay-to-play.