Where GDPR went wrong

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GDPR has been in effect for almost 3 years, with limited success. Let's break down what the EU originally set out to do, and how well they actually achieved their goals with it. Including actually taking a look at cookie banners and privacy policies for once.

The Story Behind - ep. 73

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#GDPR #Privacy #Cookies

[aidanclarke]

The main problem with GDPR is that it didn't make mandatory to have a "REJECT ALL" button on the first page which means that Accept All is always easier!

[pedrogorilla]

Hey, I appreciate your honesty in showing us your own company’s cookies policy despite it not being the greatest.

[sinom]

Gotta love the cookie websites where you can disable "essential cookies" but can't disable tracking cookies...

[Luddevige]

Thumbnail should be: Did GDPR work?
Yes/Show other options

[tahaistheboss]

It's been THREE YEARS? ALREADY? man time is flying

[OveRaDaMaNt]

GDPR is great. Although they need to add a law that demands easy cookie rejection on websites instead of whatever labyrinth you have to navigate now.

[yodamcyoda]

I wish GDPR would force companies to make the reject cookies button look more like the accept cookies button. A lot of companies deliberately make the reject button harder to see using design, colour and font to trick users into accepting cookies which is incredibly scummy imo

[paakjis]

I'm so happy that we have a quality tech channel based in EU. Are there any other ones ?

[jadoei]

It works, and I really like it exists, but it needs more work

[itsharshjain]

Great respect for you man. Just amazed thinking how much time you must have spent to bring together all of this information in such a simple format

For me it worked.
I was able to get my data from Spotify, and found the song I was listening to a day earlier during studying for my exam. So I see it as an absolute win.

[tedsomeone]

Loved this. More of this please. Tech + business + law in a dumbed down way is fantastic

[sinom]

Oh yeah I completely forgot the "just turn off cookies in your browser" websites. Yeah they are annoying.

[teatamines]

the fact that cookies and trackers are now in my face has made me more aware and careful with my own data

[psammiad]

I wonder if it really counts as "informed consent" when you get an email from Facebook or Instagram basically saying "we're going to do whatever the hell we like with your data: do you consent, or do you want to effectively be banned from ever using our service again?"

[patrik]

Just wait until you realize how it's completely possible to combine said data with anonymous credit card puchases and get a >99% probability match.
Both Adobe and Oracle sells solutions for this and it's fucking spooky.

[shubhrogupta]

almost thought that today was friday seeing that notification

[cyberrb]

It'd be a good idea to find and/or set up some sort of a "cookie _declutterer"_ extension for browsers that can make it better to both understand what is being stored in the cookies, edit it on the fly, see what people think of it, etc. That way, even if a website decides to give you a cookie that you don't know, you can easily learn about it, and if you don't want it, to remove without going through weird places. Also, so when you reject cookies, they don't make you go through loops every time you go there because they don't store it and make you reject them again.

[GeorgeNoiseless]

Learn from the tech sector you're fighting: Iterate, iterate again and iterate further.
But the key thing is to do it _FASTER_ than at a glacier's pace!

[YonatanAvhar]

The law should have a concept image of what a consent form should look like. Just a simple banner saying "CAN WE TRACK YOU?" with a YES and NO button, if the no requires more than one click it should result in a fine