‘Facebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over ‘forced consent’’
“Schrems argues that the companies are using a strategy of “forced consent” to continue processing the individuals’ personal data — when in fact the law requires that users be given a free choice unless a consent is strictly necessary for provision of the service.”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/25/facebook-google-face-first-gdpr-complaints-over-forced-consent/
Also on our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/facebook-google-face-first-gdpr-complaints-over-forced-consent/2154
@indie This does not surprise me. I just wonder how this may end up playing out. If it's happening already, maybe my hope that "maybe in a year" we will get some idea what actually happens.
@indie You mean they do forced consent just like TechCrunch does, which is hosting that article you linked to about forced consent?
@indie I'm seeing a lot of places like that. "If you continue to use the service you agree to all the stuff we were doing to before."
@indie Ironic that in order to read that article I first had to add adblock rules to disable TechCrunch/Oath's forced consent scripts.. >_<
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I can't read the article for some reason -- it shows for a bit then jumps to "Copyright 2013-2018 Oath something".