Honestly how does the EU expect companies to make money? Are websites supposed to be a charity?
I guess it's no surprise they have 0 competitive tech companies if these are the smooth brain laws they have to operate under.
I guess it's no surprise they have 0 competitive tech companies if these are the smooth brain laws they have to operate under.
An over 700 billion dollar company with 30% or so profit margin is about as far from charity you can get.
Honest question, what's an acceptable way to get consent?
Companies need the user to accept their terms before using their services but I presume that's not sufficient/acceptable way since its arguably too long/complicated for a user etc. App specific permissions on your phone can be restricted e.g. turn off location data access for an app, but users generally create accounts and provide more detailed information, so that's likely not sufficient? A prompt on every bit of data collected seems like a bad user experience e.g. notifying the user on every http request that the ip is collected/sent to the server which can provide their rough geo location.
What's an acceptable way to do this?
It's not about the data itself, it's about how it's used.
Of course very few actually want their information to be used like e.g. ad companies use it, so the "consent" is tricked with dark patterns. And this trickery (and lack of enforcement) makes the law look bad.
And if you only track necessary information, you do not need a banner at all