Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy
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Re: Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy
#2That's like how the EU Cookie law gives incentive to enable cookies:
Disable cookies? See annoying useless cookie warnings all the time everywhere!
You have to enable cookies to make it remember not to spam you with the warnings
EDIT: and good point in the article, one may wonder how making it easier to request data helps to improve privacy
Re: Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy
#3This is absolutely a problem we thought about, but we never found a good solution. Try getting the general public to use two-factor auth. Just try and see how that works out.
Re: Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy
#4There's a better solution: Stop collecting and keeping personal data.
I can't even read this article without using firefox reader mode to skip the cookie warning / prompt (this works for a lot of sites!).
That's a choice that techdirt make. By framing it as an unavoidable consequence of the cookie legislation or GDPR moves the focus to the wrong place.
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#5Techdirt misses the point.
Companies should only collect what they need, and only keep it for as long as they need it, and they have to store it safely while they have it.
All companies get hacked. GDPR compliant companies will have less personal data than other companies who see personal data as something to be gathered in huge amounts and stored for as long as possible, or even sold off.
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#6TL;DR, someone who has gained access to your account can also download your account history.
It's like complaining that someone who "hacks" into your email account can download all your email.
Re: Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy
#7On other services, when you request your data, they send it (with some delay) through a secondary channel (email, for example), which would prevent this attack.
(Yes, ideally services would collect less data, but if your account gets hacked they can access some data regardless)
Re: Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy
#8This particular case is a poor example. It's about someone screwing up her password management and getting pwned, and then suggesting everyone should be burdened with two-factor nonsense to protect her from such a thing ever affecting her again.
But the GDPR itself, yes, of course it has negative effect like most centralized bessermachen from the EU commissars has. I've never understood all the starry-eyed hosannas for this slide down into supranational control of things no governing body ought concern itself with.
It has its moments, if you're into dadaism. The other day I had phone call from my vet. Because of GDPR they felt obliged - belatedly - to mail all customers some info about why and what. They didn't have my email address, could I please give it them?
Re: Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy
#9Note that techdirt tracking consent form start with all options pre-toggled to "active".
This is in violation of the GDPR, is a pain to turn off, and indicates that no, techdirt does not care about the users privacy.
Re: Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy
#10That's like how the EU Cookie law gives incentive to enable cookies: Disable cookies? See annoying useless cookie warnings all the time everywhere! You have to enable cookies to make it remember not to spam you with the warnings EDIT: and good point in the article, one may wonder how making it easier to request data helps to improve privacy
No. Cookies required to do something the user asked do not require consent. This is solely on the lazy and/or dishonest webdevs.
See http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm#se...