… we also need your cookie and tracking preferences. Do you want us to store all possible data about you and share it with everyone? “Yes” or “Yes, but we pretend not to”
When there is a “legitimate interest” switch at each of the 262 partners which can only be toggled off manually, one by one, and it’s all on by default.
So you click the question mark to see what exactly they mean by legitimate interest, and the info pop-up says “it’s when our interest is legitimate”.
pay pal’s website asks if I want to verify through text, then freaks when it discovers that it is not a phone app, but instead a webpage on a browser with no SMS functionality to ask permissions for
Thank god that at least they made them ask. Another thing I’m massively happy for is GDPR. I keep getting mails in my inbox for all sort of random accounts I don’t remember signing up for that I probably just checked out once and forgot about, asking me if they can keep my data, please, because if I don’t reply then they can’t, and they would REALLY REALLY LIKE TO C’MON FRIEND BE MY FRIEND
… we also need your cookie and tracking preferences. Do you want us to store all possible data about you and share it with everyone? “Yes” or “Yes, but we pretend not to”
With a small list of only 700 data collectors!
That you have to individually confirm or deny, or you can’t save!
(Fun!)
When there is a “legitimate interest” switch at each of the 262 partners which can only be toggled off manually, one by one, and it’s all on by default.
So you click the question mark to see what exactly they mean by legitimate interest, and the info pop-up says “it’s when our interest is legitimate”.
This should be regulated more strictly.
*sell it to everyone
pay pal’s website asks if I want to verify through text, then freaks when it discovers that it is not a phone app, but instead a webpage on a browser with no SMS functionality to ask permissions for
I always get an e-mail with the TOTP code when I want to log in.
They didn’t until EU laws, so you can thank them for that.
Thank god that at least they made them ask. Another thing I’m massively happy for is GDPR. I keep getting mails in my inbox for all sort of random accounts I don’t remember signing up for that I probably just checked out once and forgot about, asking me if they can keep my data, please, because if I don’t reply then they can’t, and they would REALLY REALLY LIKE TO C’MON FRIEND BE MY FRIEND
EU: require consent over nonsensitive junk data that’s mostly for targeted advertising & isn’t strictly to safeguard against identity fraud
Also EU: compel the risky disclosure of sensitive information for identification, propose rules to scan all your chats
We can thank them for getting privacy entirely backward.