• Ann Archy@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    You see what they’re actually doing there?

    “We are by law forced to give you the option to view our ads and accept our tracking, because of privacy legislation in your region. Since you are hindering us from doing so, you can’t come to the birthday party”.

    Ok, thank you EU, I suppose! :)

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      9 months ago

      Pretty sure CNN is (willfully) misinterpreting the law. The EU is definitely not prohibiting them from just turning off the tracking without providing a choice.

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        9 months ago

        Yes, but the average reader can’t make that distinction and blames EU.

        The joke is that CNN still violates GDPR with this trick.

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          I thank the LORD for GDPR. I am amazed it actually happened. I voted Pirate Party for EU Parliament every time, or whoever was most loud about privacy protections at the time, I wrote to parliamentarians, one of whom I grew up with, and I sure like to think and hope it made a difference. Never thought I’d see something like this happen. The EU works. Democracy works.