Austrian privacy regulator: Google Analytics violates GDPR & Dutch Data Protection Authority warns of possible ban on Google Analytics

[Elijah Kamski]

Google: So anyways, we shut off the internet for the entire EU region XD

[Stahlmann]

8 minutes ago, Elijah Kamski said:

Google: So anyways, we shut off the internet for the entire EU region XD

That's not gonna happen. The EU is already dealing with Google to get to common ground about this particular issue.

 

I'm personally all for new legislation that makes it at least harder for international companies to collect or sell your involuntarily collected data.

[Elijah Kamski]

2 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

That's not gonna happen. The EU is already dealing with Google to get to common ground about this particular issue.

 

I'm personally all for new legislation that makes it at least harder for international companies to sell your involuntarily collected data.

Until the Metaverse becomes a big thing, because they'll say that it is technically another world as it is a virtual reality and not actually reality, therefore has no specific location or law that would apply to it specifically XD

Would be funny to see how this goes XD

[Stahlmann]

Just now, Elijah Kamski said:

Until the Metaverse becomes a big thing, because they'll say that it is technically another world as it is a virtual reality and not actually reality, therefore has no specific location or law that would apply to it specifically XD

Would be funny to see how this goes XD

The "metaverse" is just a fantasy and a word tech companies like to throw around to make them sound more "advanced", nothing more.

[Elijah Kamski]

1 minute ago, Stahlmann said:

The "metaverse" is just a fantasy and a word tech companies like to throw around to make them sound more "advanced", nothing more.

Yeah I know, but marketing works XD

[Elijah Kamski]

If I recall correctly, Aus was also the country that passed the whole bill that would allow the police to access your files, social media etc, and even change items there without your knowledge?

Usually I am for this, but seeing Australia's current position on things, this seems like a attempted power move. Google might as well do a Google Tax for Australia and all these other places.

[Doobeedoo]

Oho, will this make Google change something.

[LogicalDrm]

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Duplicate news post merged to earlier about same piece of news.

[Stahlmann]

7 hours ago, Elijah Kamski said:

Usually I am for this, but seeing Australia's current position on things, this seems like a attempted power move. Google might as well do a Google Tax for Australia and all these other places.

How would you implement that? Google currently doesn't charge anything for their services to begin with - meaning there are free options available for everything you'd want from them.

[Elijah Kamski]

1 hour ago, Stahlmann said:

How would you implement that? Google currently doesn't charge anything for their services to begin with - meaning there are free options available for everything you'd want from them.

Maybe how Mega (cloud storage company) does things, or use SUPRISE MECHANICS every time you search something XD

 

Idk XD

[Mark Kaine]

Google is really scummy as heck... they are much more evil than i thought actually. 

 

So i was downloading some mods , but i had to do some 'tricks' (nothing illegal afaik) to get them because  the "quota" was exceeded or some bs, but before that, actually, it would already trick me into enabling "third party cookies"... when i tried download a file (from google if that wasn't clear) it told me "cant download because third party cookies arent enabled" so i enabled them, and *then* it told me "quota exceeded" WTF? Isnt that kinda against GDPR as well to trick you into enabling third party cookies because from experience that isnt necessary at all to download something from google drive (it never told me that before) 

 

Also i have no idea what GA is, but it seems to be related and similarly scummy,  and most likely illegal as well.

 

Can they just not ban Google already?

 

 

 

 

[Elijah Kamski]

7 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Google is really scummy as heck... they are much more evil than i thought actually. 

 

So i was downloading some mods , but i had to do some 'tricks' (nothing illegal afaik) to get them because  the "quota" was exceeded or some bs, but before that, actually, it would already trick me into enabling "third party cookies"... when i tried download a file (from google if that wasn't clear) it told me "cant download because third party cookies arent enabled" so i enabled them, and *then* it told me "quota exceeded" WTF? Isnt that kinda against GDPR as well to trick you into enabling third party cookies because from experience that isnt necessary at all to download something from google drive (it never told me that before) 

 

Also i have no idea what GA is, but it seems to be related and similarly scummy,  and most likely illegal as well.

 

Can they just not ban Google already?

 

 

 

 

This is actually definitely new.

They becoming Mega now?

Sad to see really since they're much bigger.

Hope we'll all move to torrenting as a form of downloading and sharing files.

[Mark Kaine]

On 1/14/2022 at 4:12 PM, Chris Pratt said:

I fully understand politics are not the same every where, but when it comes to tech, they are.

this is why no one can take you seriously,  regardless of your location,  this is just flat out wrong,  that's exactly what this is about, regulations are *not* the same everywhere,  and America being known for poor consumer protection simply makes people think "typical American" when you claim such things.