Re: Proposal for a Do Not Track ACT - better late than never?

On Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2019 19:40:17 CEST Mike O'Neill wrote:
>  <https://spreadprivacy.com/do-not-track-act-2019/>
> https://spreadprivacy.com/do-not-track-act-2019/
> 
The Do-Not-Track act is already in place in the EU with Art. 21 GDPR. It 
just isn't enforced yet. I think the DPAs currently start with the big 
incidents. So it will come. I already heard people saying in Brussels that 
it will be hard to argue tracking someone based on "legitimate interest" 
while the person is sending a DNT signal. 

In the meantime, we just need to wait for the court cases to come. Perhaps 
another "Schrems effect" will occur. 

Question is then, when will we see the DNT signal disappear from browsers? 
Any bets welcome. 

The fun part is that the EU publishing industry refuses the consent 
opening via DNT in the ePrivacy Regulation with the following argument : 

As DNT is managed within the browser, the browsers become "gatekeepers" 
and can be used to manipulate the masses against the complaining 
publishers, control their ad revenue. This is an utterly broken 
argumentation (for many reasons), but trying to convince them to change at 
the Munich media days remained a shockingly futile exercise. 

So it is not only Privacy (who cares for those citizens?). It is also a 
competition fight between new media and the former paper barons. This 
makes it so complex to achieve anything. 

If all actors involved block everything, we will end up with a lot of 
bureaucracy. That sounds strange, but only at a first glance: Privacy 
policy with processing workflow list records anyone?

 --Rigo

Received on Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:37:48 UTC