Google’s GDPR Workaround
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#2EDIT: since everyone seems to be mentioning the 4% rule, I'd just like to point out that I'm not denying the existence of this, just denying that it is actually effective. Google has violated antitrust before, and walked away with a "big" fine that's a slap on the wrist. They've violated GDPR before as well once or twice, and got a "record breaking" 57MM$ fine. The 4% rule exists and clearly isn't enforced well. I know a lot of people love GDPR but I would be beyond shocked if the EU actually managed to hit Google with something that sticks. I very much hope I'm proved wrong!
This sort of resolution was inevitable.
I said it before and I'll say it again: GDPR is an annoying measure for developers, small businesses and startups. It doesn't do much other than put in place so many steps that growth tools for startups become risky to use. For big businesses that (ab)use big data, it's not much of a hassle because they can afford the legal steps as well as the change in infrastructure. They can even work around it and keep abusing data without consequences.
If they're able to beat Google's lawyer army and actually prosecute them, then Google will take a whopping fine in the millions of dollars that'll be more than covered by their daily revs.
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#4EDIT: since everyone seems to be mentioning the 4% rule, I'd just like to point out that I'm not denying the existence of this, just denying that it is actually effective. Google has violated antitrust before, and walked away with a "big" fine that's a slap on the wrist. They've violated GDPR before as well once or twice, and got a "record breaking" 57MM$ fine. The 4% rule exists and clearly isn't enforced well. I kn…
From my (admittedly limited) understanding, this is not actually legal under the GDPR. Certainly the alleged (but not demonstrated) behind-the-scenes trading of personal info isn’t, but the shared id is also personally-identifying information, and directly regulated.
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#5This some great work on tracking down all of these measures to track users. I really hope we get to the point where dumb ads rules the web once more. Hopefully this results in more than a slap on the wrist, but I doubt it.
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#6EDIT: since everyone seems to be mentioning the 4% rule, I'd just like to point out that I'm not denying the existence of this, just denying that it is actually effective. Google has violated antitrust before, and walked away with a "big" fine that's a slap on the wrist. They've violated GDPR before as well once or twice, and got a "record breaking" 57MM$ fine. The 4% rule exists and clearly isn't enforced well. I kn…
And I'm very annoyed that your initial reaction to reading this article is to blame the GDPR instead of blaming Google for these shady practices. Boycott that crap, move to other services. This shouldn't be acceptable.
I'm very happy that the GDPR exist, if only because it forced all these websites from explicitly giving me a list of the literally hundreds of partners they want to share my data with, along with a way to say "hell no". Of course Google and friends will try to work around it but hopefully that won't come to pass and they'll have to actually bother changing their crappy business model. I think the spirit of the law is fairly clear, I wonder why Google thinks this scheme can work. Maybe they're just trying to buy some time.
As for startups that sink because they can't be bothered to sanely handle my personal data: good riddance.
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#7EDIT: since everyone seems to be mentioning the 4% rule, I'd just like to point out that I'm not denying the existence of this, just denying that it is actually effective. Google has violated antitrust before, and walked away with a "big" fine that's a slap on the wrist. They've violated GDPR before as well once or twice, and got a "record breaking" 57MM$ fine. The 4% rule exists and clearly isn't enforced well. I kn…
From my (admittedly limited) understanding, this is not actually legal under the GDPR. Certainly the alleged (but not demonstrated) behind-the-scenes trading of personal info isn’t, but the shared id is also personally-identifying information, and directly regulated.
It is very not legal, but I think the parent was saying these regulations are more onerous to small dev shops rather than Google and the fine for this will be minuscule. Hopefully companies will find paths to revenue that do not require selling out there users to this level, maybe by just having ad auctions without any identifying information at all.
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#8It's really funny to see that yesterday, I was branded as a 'privacy nut' after the release of Android 10 as I was concerned about the privacy issues that are in Android. Then the Go modules proxy issue around the Go Programming language that raised suspicions about tracking usage statistics around downloading modules turned on by default without any consent and now this.
I think there are some folks at Google who have just read too deep into both 1984 and The Google Book to go on to think that privacy violations like this is a normal thing. But what do I know? I'm just another 'privacy lunatic' on the net that wears a metal helmet (tinfoil hats are just not good enough) trying to protect my privacy.
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#9EDIT: since everyone seems to be mentioning the 4% rule, I'd just like to point out that I'm not denying the existence of this, just denying that it is actually effective. Google has violated antitrust before, and walked away with a "big" fine that's a slap on the wrist. They've violated GDPR before as well once or twice, and got a "record breaking" 57MM$ fine. The 4% rule exists and clearly isn't enforced well. I kn…
The European Union has decided that growth based on clandestine tracking of users, selling their PII without consent is not a legitimate growth tool.
You know, like the way we outlawed violence as a "growth tool"
Your other claims are more reasonable. But they would lead me to the conclusion we need bigger fines on bigger businesses. Not absolutely bigger, as the law already does, but relatively bigger. The more power you have to break the law, the bigger the stakes should be.
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#10EDIT: since everyone seems to be mentioning the 4% rule, I'd just like to point out that I'm not denying the existence of this, just denying that it is actually effective. Google has violated antitrust before, and walked away with a "big" fine that's a slap on the wrist. They've violated GDPR before as well once or twice, and got a "record breaking" 57MM$ fine. The 4% rule exists and clearly isn't enforced well. I kn…
From my (admittedly limited) understanding, this is not actually legal under the GDPR. Certainly the alleged (but not demonstrated) behind-the-scenes trading of personal info isn’t, but the shared id is also personally-identifying information, and directly regulated.
It's not legal but there isn't much the EU can really do. It would be shocking if they actually managed to prosecute Google which has so far avoided much hassle in antitrust and the like, taking I think a billion dollar fine which sounds like a lot but is basically a slap on the wrist.
That's why, IMO, GDPR sucks for small businesses that can be outed to the ICO for a minor oversight and not so much for big data abusers that can take on GDPR and come out unscathed.