TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
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#2The report on which the BEUC complaint is based: https://www.beuc.eu/publications/beuc-x-2021-012_tiktok_with...
Re: TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
#3Clubhouse is next? Their ToS doesn't look EU-compliant either
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#4Title wrong as it's EU - not Europe, but many confuse and transpose them - even though they are not verbatim.
EDIT Add - Europe is composed of 44 countries and the EU is composed of 27 from those.
Re: TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
#5Title wrong as it's EU - not Europe, but many confuse and transpose them - even though they are not verbatim. EDIT Add - Europe is composed of 44 countries and the EU is composed of 27 from those.
The complaints are coming from BEUC, which is not only composed of EU countries. So writing EU would be wrong.
Re: TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
#6Title wrong as it's EU - not Europe, but many confuse and transpose them - even though they are not verbatim. EDIT Add - Europe is composed of 44 countries and the EU is composed of 27 from those.
being Europe a superset of the EU the title is still technically valid, it's "across [some] Europe [countries]"
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#7I have always promised myself that if I become a billionare, I will simply stop providing services to municipalities or countries that create arbitrary laws that make it hard or difficult to do business in. Honestly Google should have just boycotted Europe for a week and seen how well everyone handles not having gmail, google, or anything.
California is particularly onerous about all sorts of stuff like labelling everything as cancerous even though you'll probably need to spend 60 years licking the plastic bag labelled as such, or GDPR which required thousands and thousands of man hours at my last job when we weren't in Europe, the law was legally unclear, etc. Or the stupid cookie banners which guess what - do nothing.
edit: another example was at working at a cigar shop where we could happily sell individual cigars and ship them, we could sell boxes of cigars, but we couldn't sell pre-packaged mix and match bags since, well you know, they weren't individually recognized and regulated skus (even though their contents were) and we just decided to drop that program. It's a shame, mix and matching cigars is great. PROP 65 Warning: smoking kills you.
Re: TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
#8I have always promised myself that if I become a billionare, I will simply stop providing services to municipalities or countries that create arbitrary laws that make it hard or difficult to do business in. Honestly Google should have just boycotted Europe for a week and seen how well everyone handles not having gmail, google, or anything. California is particularly onerous about all sorts of stuff like labelling eve…
First, I hope you become a billionaire!
However, I don't agree with what you're saying. Are the laws perfect? No. But I do think we need something in place to balance things out so that companies are less predatory with our data. All these laws bring awareness to normal people, even if they click "accept all".
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#9As I click my 10,000th cookie modal to read this article, I am forced to ask if this legislation has made my web experience better in any way, to which the answer is a resounding no. I understand the importance of it, but please prioritise revising its shortcomings rather than doubling down on being the most tech-hostile region in the developed world.
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#10As I click my 10,000th cookie modal to read this article, I am forced to ask if this legislation has made my web experience better in any way, to which the answer is a resounding no. I understand the importance of it, but please prioritise revising its shortcomings rather than doubling down on being the most tech-hostile region in the developed world.
The problem isn't the legislation but its lack of enforcement. The legislation itself explicitly prohibits annoying/misleading consent prompts.