European Union Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders recently told German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' that the European Commission is aware of how annoying cookie consent banners have become...
  • The Cooking Senpai@lemme.discus.shEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    A serious law would be like (but in legalese):

    • By default you CANNOT use tracking cookies
    • If you want to use them you should have a Table that classify them based on how much fingerprint do they take
    • Then you have to explicitly ask the user in the most clear and unintrusive way possible if you can track them
    • And the consent should last 30 days max
    • TheEntity@kbin.social
      0·
      8 months ago

      Sounds like the current law, except for the last point. The problem is with enforcing compliance.

    • Holli25@slrpnk.netEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      That is actually really close to what is present now. The EU never said “use cookie banners” but rather “if you really want to track people, they have to say yes”. And most commercial websites decided to make it hard to say no, now everyone blames the EU for doing so. Your second point is not yet implemented, this would be really good for consumers.