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• akulium@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doesn’t enforcement work by letting competitors sue you if you don’t follow the rules for these things?

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• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s the cookie law?

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  • Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No cookies before dinner.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If websites want to track you through cookies, they have to ask for permission.

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  • peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The cookie consent banner has to allow you to opt out of cookies as easily as accepting them

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    • gamey@feddit.rocks ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Almoat true, it actually has to be a opt in system, opt out is illegal already!

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      • peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, I think it has to default to off but I believe the banner they show shouldn’t make it harder to continue with it being off rather than turning it on

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• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve heard stories about some of the big guys getting hit with sizable GDPR fines. I don’t really know the full extent of what they do but I do imagine there’s someone that makes it their job to prosecute GDPR violations.

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