• Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    4 hours ago

    That’s already part of the GDPR, companies just aren’t complying with it.

    From the official GDPR site:

    To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:

    • Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.
    • Provide accurate and specific information about the data each cookie tracks and its purpose in plain language before consent is received.
    • Document and store consent received from users.
    • Allow users to access your service even if they refuse to allow the use of certain cookies
    • Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.
    • Imhotep@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 minutes ago

      “Make it easy”

      If you make a vague law that companies can circumvent they will do it.

      That’s why you force the use of a standardized menu, because nothing else makes sense, no? The same way you don’t leave it to the tobacco manufacturers to implement the warnings on the box ; you force them all to adopt the same one that’s clearly visible.

      It feels like it’s either severe incompetence, or the work of lobbyists. But I don’t know enough about the matter