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

terabytest

Is the issue here a lack of “Reject All” button? Or strictly the number of partners?

jcul

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.

xg15

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.

zkmon

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

I thought for sure this would be for f1tv.formula1.com but apparently that's only 134 and I thought that was ridiculous.

jtreitz

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.

wyager

Can someone who works in commercial web dev explain how companies even end up with this much crap pulled into their websites?

harrouet

I see so many sites that pretend that they have 350 /legitimate interest/ partners. Time to crack down on abuses.

robotswantdata

Pihole / dns sink hole Or better yet , never connect it to the internet!

loeg

What, is "accept all" somehow not acceptable to GDPRers anymore? We'll have to manually click through multiple forms of cookie allowance just to get to the damn website? What a mess.

CodesInChaos

EU should simply outlaw tracking for advertisement purposes. Let's return to context based ads.

tomkarho

These single click "informed" consent is akin to a bartender mixing you a drink with 30 different ingredients and hoping you don't notice they include cyanide and rohypnol.

anon48293

Just ban ads already. I don’t want ads. I don’t want to be tracked. I should have the right to never interact with either, unless explicit, informed and single-button-revocable consent is given.

thinkingemote

A surprising number of sites that have consents do not actually do anything apart from set a flag. They are not actually connected to disabling analytics, just connected to the banner itself. It seems like no data privacy activists or automated scans actually look at whether the consents really work or not, just whether they have them!

sensanaty

The EU just needs to make tracking of any kind full on illegal, especially targeted advertising. I don't give a shit if your business can't survive without invasive tracking of every single facet of your user's existence, you deserve to be shut down if that's your one and only viable business model.