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There are many different ways for GDPR to be effective without fines. In the UK, for example ICO aims to offer warnings and guidance in most cases. They aim to get people compliant, levying fines in cases of wilful contempt or egregious slackness. It’s not primarily a money making exercise

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I think we can safely agree as of now GDPR is having ~zero effect (bar the annoying overlays) and quickly becoming another cookie law.

The overlays are the start of something bigger, and are a significant change as is. Websites now are forced to tell you who's tracking you and let you turn off that tracking en masse without being unable to use the site.

Complaint is this is not happening at all. In fact, they would need to require an opt-in consent, not presenting obfuscated opt-outs which do not even work. It really does not help we have tables with few hundred companies listed.

> It really does not help we have tables with few hundred companies listed.

It helps so far that I (as a user) see upfront how much an article costs (in tracking data). I can then decide if I want to pay for it or not.

I think we can safely agree that GDPR is having substantial effects (I’ve worked on implementing it in 2 organisations) and that the banners we are seeing is a tiny element of what GDPR are about - an annoying edge case.

It's achieved a quite dramatic change in data breach reporting, thanks to that 72 hours requirement.

https://www.dlapiper.com/en/uk/news/2019/02/dla-piper-gdpr-d...

No, we can't agree.

>In the UK, for example ICO aims to offer warnings and guidance in most cases. They aim to get people compliant, levying fines in cases of wilful contempt or egregious slackness.

It is rather disingenuous to upsell ICO as a vanguard, instead of describing it as a toothless quango, at best.

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