“If adopted, these amendments would not simplify compliance but hollow out the GDPR’s and ePrivacy’s core guarantees: purpose limitation, accountability, and independent oversight,” Itxaso Dominguez de Olazabal, from the European Digital Rights group, told EUobserver.
The draft includes adjustments to what is considered “personal data,” a key component of the GDPR and protected by Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
You know what would be good? If the browser asked you what you wanted to share, and then that was it. You didnt get asked by every single fucking website to accept fucking cookies. The website asks the browser, the browser tells them, and its all done. If youre gonna make changes, make that change.
This is what ‘do not track’ was for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
It didn’t work because it was up to the sites to read and respect the flag, which they did not.
do not track was a “pweeease mister serwer uwu”-sorta move. there was no legal basis for it, and there was no technical backing. it would have been simple easy for browsers to just not send stuff that can be tracked (just check the eff panopticon site for how much superfluous stuff is just sent by the browser with every request), but instead the industry opted for the easier “here’s all my stuff just as it was, and a little note that says ‘don’t look’”. do not track was always a joke.
Not to kiss the boot of the Tim Cook led, fascist supporting corporation that is Apple. However, the IOS ecosystem does this. That “Ask App Not To Track” is deceptive in that it actually prevents a lot of data collection, though the “Ask” portion is hinged on the fact that Apple can not control everything an app does on their server side. You can configure, via your device settings, to always and automatically respond with “Yes” to this regardless of which app is asking.
Well we had the “do not track” header but almost everyone ignored it, and in the end it was removed from most browsers because ironically it just made tracking people easier.