If you make a vague law that companies can circumvent they will do it.
That’s why you force the use of a standardized menu, because nothing else makes sense, no?
The same way you don’t leave it to the tobacco manufacturers to implement the warnings on the box ; you force them all to adopt the same one that’s clearly visible.
It feels like it’s either severe incompetence, or the work of lobbyists. But I don’t know enough about the matter
Why not mandate a x by x pixel popup with a specific wording?
I remember this French company, I think SFR (phone), which had to show on their website their condemnation. Since there weren’t clear specifications they made it so the message would disappear when you scrolled down one pixel, so almost no one saw it.
Well, that could make the popup unusable depending on screen size. I think the wording is pretty clear, the issue is just that there’s no followup and not clear enough incentives to avoid skirting the rules at the moment.
That’s already part of the GDPR, companies just aren’t complying with it.
From the official GDPR site:
“Make it easy”
If you make a vague law that companies can circumvent they will do it.
That’s why you force the use of a standardized menu, because nothing else makes sense, no? The same way you don’t leave it to the tobacco manufacturers to implement the warnings on the box ; you force them all to adopt the same one that’s clearly visible.
It feels like it’s either severe incompetence, or the work of lobbyists. But I don’t know enough about the matter
Not “make it easy”, it’s “make it as easy”, meaning it can’t be easier to accept than to revoke, much clearer bar.
And you dont think that’s really vague though?
Why not mandate a x by x pixel popup with a specific wording?
I remember this French company, I think SFR (phone), which had to show on their website their condemnation. Since there weren’t clear specifications they made it so the message would disappear when you scrolled down one pixel, so almost no one saw it.
Well, that could make the popup unusable depending on screen size. I think the wording is pretty clear, the issue is just that there’s no followup and not clear enough incentives to avoid skirting the rules at the moment.