Unfortunately I feel like many websites/platforms on the web probably don’t follow these laws. It’s up to the user to prove that their data has not been used in good faith. Then you gotta pay a lawyer to make your case.
So much of this can be avoided if users are truly given ownership/control of their data and if the databases were not controlled by centralized actors. But from a technical perspective, this is not easy to achieve. I do hope it’s where we are headed though because the law itself and how it is upheld is often flawed and biased. That’s not to say that we don’t need laws, because we can’t decentralize everything. Also no system is perfect but I really think we can do without serving users with a cookie collection warning popup every-time they visit a website. I can’t stand those, there has to be a better way 😂
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That's why it's European law that
These laws allowed France to fine Google €50m for GDPR breaches because they didn't give users enough information to be able to consent to or decline their data tracking.
Unfortunately I feel like many websites/platforms on the web probably don’t follow these laws. It’s up to the user to prove that their data has not been used in good faith. Then you gotta pay a lawyer to make your case.
So much of this can be avoided if users are truly given ownership/control of their data and if the databases were not controlled by centralized actors. But from a technical perspective, this is not easy to achieve. I do hope it’s where we are headed though because the law itself and how it is upheld is often flawed and biased. That’s not to say that we don’t need laws, because we can’t decentralize everything. Also no system is perfect but I really think we can do without serving users with a cookie collection warning popup every-time they visit a website. I can’t stand those, there has to be a better way 😂