If I refuse tracking for ads, then a newspaper can’t refuse me access to their articles.
Even better, it requires the use to say “yes”.
This arbitrarily limits the range of businesses that can exist. For the sake of people who value their privacy having nothing denied to them, it reduces the services available to everyone.
they can. a business does not even need to do business with you. it's not a right that a business needs to service you. and btw. this is german law.
heck they can even rely on other laws to cancel your service any time they want.
in the next years GDPR will change nearly nothing. except that it will kill some smaller businesses.
GDPR is not strongly enforceable, if people think they have a right to something they still need to go to court.
the only thing which might change is that it will be easier to delete accounts and data (which is a good thing).
It won’t. It will just replace the common “no one reads but clicks” TOS. And the user can change her mind anytime she wants.
> The amount of "no clue what this is" among non technical people I know is 100%.
If you can’t explain a non engineer or scientist how personal is collected and used it’s probably not a bad idea to outlaw this practice.
> But the EU pats itself on the back cause they're tackling privacy issues. It's a joke.
It’s certainly not enough but a step in the right direction.