<story><title>A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/how-a-small-french-privacy-ruling-could-remake-adtech-for-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fyfy18</author><text>Good. I always saw the intention of the GDPR as legislation to fundamentally change the way personal data is processed, to prevent the freely spreading of it, with blatant disregard to the consequences, by basically any company that handles personal data. Instead most companies have just opted for clickwrap consent, and continued as they always have.&lt;p&gt;The more rulings we have like this, the better. Yes it may cause some business models to disappear, but I feel it&amp;#x27;s worth it to take back control of our privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nothis</author><text>I hate the &amp;quot;cookie law&amp;quot; for this very reason. It just resulted in more popups which became at best white noise, at worst a genuine annoyance for users. Cookie-consent popups are a part of most ad-blockers, which should make you think.&lt;p&gt;Instead, the end result should be less abuse and hoarding of data. In other words, ad services should be held accountable for what they collect, not just inform users &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; they collect your data. Cookies are actually the &lt;i&gt;one&lt;/i&gt; thing you can control, it&amp;#x27;s in your browser, it&amp;#x27;s not the problem, you can block or delete the data. What should be regulated are what companies store server-side and how they connect that data and that should be done between the government and the companies, not between the company and its users who might not have the expertise and, in many cases, are stuck with some quasi-monopoly like Google or Facebook.</text></comment>
<story><title>A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/how-a-small-french-privacy-ruling-could-remake-adtech-for-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fyfy18</author><text>Good. I always saw the intention of the GDPR as legislation to fundamentally change the way personal data is processed, to prevent the freely spreading of it, with blatant disregard to the consequences, by basically any company that handles personal data. Instead most companies have just opted for clickwrap consent, and continued as they always have.&lt;p&gt;The more rulings we have like this, the better. Yes it may cause some business models to disappear, but I feel it&amp;#x27;s worth it to take back control of our privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isostatic</author><text>&amp;gt; Yes it may cause some business models to disappear, but I feel it&amp;#x27;s worth it to take back control of our privacy.&lt;p&gt;Good, hopefully we&amp;#x27;ll see some real innovation, with wide spread micropayments, rather than brainwashing which costs the viewer of the site far more than the recipient of the site gets.</text></comment>