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Lil Meow Meow

@EU_Commission

The problem is that I'm not under the impression that all those who should in the Commission care about the implementation at all. E.g. Thierry Breton.

Furthermore, many tech companies don't give a shit and the most often responsible Irish authorities don't give one either.
If they act, it's almost always because other MS authorities push them or people like Max Schrems successfully sues.

That must change.

28 January at 8:47 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Iain Collins

@lil_meow_meow @EU_Commission Agree, not caring about the implementation has been a huge problem.

I wish the EU had aligned behind Do Not Track over a decade ago, and had better understood the implementation of cookie consent enough to have avoided the UX disaster of consent pop-ups everywhere.

I was at a roundtable with reps from Microsoft, Apple, Google and the UK ICO years ago; the EU wasn't listening to people telling them to get behind DNT, even with the FTC, W3C and EFF behind it.

28 January at 9:07 | Open on mastodon.social
Iain Collins

@lil_meow_meow @EU_Commission Not having a framework for implementation that includes process for escalation has also made it difficult to hold organizations to account and actually get them to uphold their obligations.

On the tracking side, I hope things work out differently this time with Global Privacy Control header and that the European Commission support the initiative.

It has a huge potential for impact, even for those of us outside the EU.

@lil_meow_meow @EU_Commission Not having a framework for implementation that includes process for escalation has also made it difficult to hold organizations to account and actually get them to uphold their obligations.

On the tracking side, I hope things work out differently this time with Global Privacy Control header and that the European Commission support the initiative.

28 January at 9:11 | Open on mastodon.social
Lil Meow Meow

@iaincollins

The GDPR has already a global effect - "The Brussels Effect" in action.

It could have been much better and larger but I'm mostly offended by the Irish authorities who act more often than not in the interest of tech companies in a shameless sell out of EU citizens.

That's my no.1 demand to change: Centralize the oversight so no member state can attract business by selling our rights out.

@EU_Commission

28 January at 9:17 | Open on mastodon.social
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