[kwlug-disc] OT: General Data Protection Regulation

[Mikalai Birukou]

Without adding clarity :) , those popups may also be seen as a forced 
consent: https://noyb.eu/

On a side: who knew that this subject will get so entertaining ;)


On 2018-05-26 11:42 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> I am trying to understand the EU's new General Data Protection
> Regulation (GDPR).
>
> Does this only apply to personally-identifiable information (PII)?
>
> Does it protect EU citizens from being put into demographic buckets
> that are not personally identifiable and being targeted/profiled in
> that way?
>
> Does this do something useful or will it turn into a hinderance like
> the irritating "we use cookies and if you want to use our
> website you must close this modal popup" nonsense? Am I going to have to
> close more modal popups because of this? (Has this cookie popup thing
> done anything productive at all?)
>
> Is there a good overview about the impacts of this thing?
>
> - Paul