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1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed

https://noyb.eu/en/1741-informed-consents-one-click-gdpr-complaint-against-dictcc-filed
67•dotcoma•1h ago

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terabytest•36m ago
Is the issue here a lack of “Reject All” button? Or strictly the number of partners?
Superleroy•27m ago
I read the complaint and it seems to have nothing to do with the reject all button and is only about transparency and informed consent. They state that you cannot reasonably read all those privacy policies and thus you also cannot give informed consent.

At least that is how I understood it

mschild•27m ago
Probably both.

If I understand it correctly giving informed consent for over 1700 tracking partners of a single page isn't realistic. You as a single person cannot be expected to truly understand what it is you are agreeing to when you click accept.

Nursie•24m ago
The issue is that even if you click "Accept" there is no reasonable way to infer that the user has given informed consent, because becoming informed would likely take days or weeks.

As such the conditions for data sharing are not met and it is likely to be illegal.

swiftcoder•22m ago
It's the definition of "informed consent". Can I actually go through a couple of thousand 3rd parties and confirm that their policies all conform to my data handling requirements?
jcul•24m ago
I've seen similar on some android apps I think, where it will ask you if you consent to sharing data with partners or something similar.

When you say no there's a huge list of partners you have to disable one by one, it's probably 15 minutes of work to go through them all.

I can't think of an example app right now, but usually it's on first install or something like that. Not sure GDPR applies to apps though.

holsta•17m ago
> Not sure GDPR applies to apps though.

GDPR applies to we the people and the organizations who hold our data. Doesn't matter if it's morse code on paper strips.

If we can dictate warnings on tobacco packages, we can dictate the wording on consent banners to not be "We care about your privacy" but instead "We want to track you for profit".

Y-bar•15m ago
GDPR absolutely applies to apps, it applies to all manner of electronic and non-electronic means of data collection and processing.

The G stands for General, and the EU means it.

xg15•24m ago
Still wondering how "freely given, informed, specific and unambiguous" is fulfilled by "sure you can opt-out of tracking - by buying a premium subscription. Also, here are our 589 'partners' that all claim legitimate interest" but here we are.
CalRobert•17m ago
Europe doesn’t enforce the law. Cookie banners are similarly pointless.
bobim•9m ago
They are useful as a deterrence system, can't decline in one click? I'm out thanks.
consp•13m ago
Legitimate interest does not exist and is a loophole in the law which should be killed. You can challenge it but the authorities who should handle that are grossly underfunded.
zkmon•15m ago
Every law is made under some assumptions about the scale of things. For example, judiciary procedures were designed assuming certain number of active cases. Citizen services and bureaucracy around them is designed assuming some amount of work and staff size. Look at the US immigration / green card processes.

The designers of GDPR would have not expected thousands of partners sharing the data collected in a single click. The next review of the legislation would probably pick it up.

andrewstuart2•10m ago
I thought for sure this would be for f1tv.formula1.com but apparently that's only 134 and I thought that was ridiculous.
jtreitz•9m ago
My Samsung TV which I bought 8 years ago now suddenly asks me if it's okay they share data with their over 200 partners. They have the nerves to headline this with "protect your privacy". Generally not a big fan of EU policing but I wish somebody sued them over this.

> Improving Your Experience and Protecting Your Privacy on Samsung TV Plus

> Samsung and our 264 partners use information about you and your device in order to provide, analyse and improve the Samsung TV Plus app. This includes the processing of personal data such as unique IDs for personalised advertising.

eckelhesten•5m ago
If I got a dollar for every person suckered into buying Samsung products…

But to stay on topic: never! connect your tv to the internet. My LG has been offline for around 5 years now after automatically installing unwanted apps. Since then, I run everything via an Apple TV 4K which works way better than LGs own software does anyway.

ifh-hn•4m ago
I threw out a Samsung after they kept asking this shit. They'd provided a single button to accept but literally 200+ decline buttons, one for every partner, that I needed to scroll through a click with my remote. Fuck Samsung. Will never buy any Samsung product ever again.
wyager•6m ago
Can someone who works in commercial web dev explain how companies even end up with this much crap pulled into their websites?

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