general data protection regulation
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There’s a Dumb New Plan to Fix the Cookie Popups That Torture You Every Day
Tired of dealing with popups begging you to accept cookies? Blame the EU. In 2018, Europe unleashed a groundbreaking privacy law called the GDPR that, among a billion other things, makes websites ask permission before tracking you with cookies. A lot of companies switched their whole systems over rather than building special European versions of…
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The Hidden Failure of the World’s Biggest Privacy Law
This week, European authorities struck a massive blow to the digital data-mining industrial complex with a new ruling stating that, quite simply, most of those annoying cookie alert banners that sites were forced to onboard en masse after GDPR was passed haven’t… actually been compliant with GDPR. Sorry.
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Amazon to Appeal Record $1.2 Billion Fine Over Advertising Practices
Amazon says it intends to challenge a record $US886 million ($1.19 billion) fine imposed by a European Union privacy regulator over what the company says are perceived privacy violations related to its advertising technology.
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Facebook Fined Just $911,000 In UK Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($910,650) by the United Kingdom today over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The minuscule fine was the most allowed under the law, but Facebook can probably find that kind of money in its couch cushions. Based on last year’s revenue, Facebook makes that amount in less than 9 minutes of operation.