can the justification be "because fuck you" ?

I mean data collection is their whole business model. Theyre going to drag their feet as much as possible

This company is pure evil and I cannot imagine the EU allowing this approach to opting out.

they can suck cock.

If you do not consent but log on anyway you'd be a new kind of what used to be called "disturbed individual".

Well that's a bunch of bull shit

Why would anyone accept this treatment just to access garbage?

As far as I know EU legislation states that data collection for Europeans by default is opt-in. When are the American companies going to get this?

I wonder if they will try to tack on charges or downgrade functionality as a result of less monetization.

Well, then the EU just fines them 4% of their global revenue every 20 days until they comply.

It will be much more difficult for people to opt out this way and they know it.

This is something called “administrative burden,” which is having to deal with a bunch of red tape and general bullshit to exercise your rights or receive benefits for which you qualify. It’s usually associated with dealing with government programs but it happens a lot in the private sector too.

works for me

can you imagine to level of the mind that dreamt this up?

Yeah nah, that won’t fly. It doesn’t even fly here in the US, an opt-out requirement is an opt-out, justification has no place here

As long as legal divisions treat the interests of the consumer in data privacy as adversarial to the interests of the firm, US companies will not get this. It’s a conscious choice to prioritize a few extra immediate dollars over the intangibles of company reputation, long-term stability and differentiation, and overall compliance.

Nice username

So don't use their platforms. It's that easy.

How about no

Justification? WTF!

I hope the EU will tell these surveillance capitalists to bigger off to India, where nobody cares about privacy

Not pictured in the article: Margrethe Vestager, sharpening an axe.

"Because I want to" ??

Not mine, thank you!

So if your justification is not valid, they basically continue to harvest your information out from underneath you without your consent. I’m in the US, but congrats Facebook/Meta, you just lost a user for life if this starts to be implemented in the US. 😫

Should I just smash my Oculus Quest 2 to pieces with a sledgehammer, chuck the remains out a window, and then buy a new VR headset at this point?

Because making something prohibitively difficult isn't technically prohibiting it!

If it does get implemented in the US though, I have a feeling it wouldn’t last long before being struck down by the US Supreme Court

All data collection should be illegal without explicit concent, and must be made clear and obvious

Eh, it's free of charge.

They can have and sell my data when I get a cut of the profits

Which in EU is. Unless specified by the user, non technical data collections is by default off

God they're so unbelievably shady.

I cannot find the report now, years ago an ISP here in the UK did a trial of data mining (I think they used deep packet inspection) and injecting averts on their unsuspecting customers.

When they were caught out they said they decided not to tell their customers as they claimed their customers wouldn't understand. The government and related watchdog did nothing about it. I recall reading that the relevant branch of the EU threatened to sue the UK government if they didn't act. I don't recall what the outcome was.

I believe the trial was conducted by BT Internet and a third party company whose advert related tech they used.

At the time I recall the IT/tech news sources were reporting it as that's where I read about it. I don't know what the general news media reported on the subject.

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Data collection should be illegal without personally negotiating with the subject on a price.

Wanna collect my data for free? Fuck you. Wanna collect my data by paying me $100 per data point per day? Be my guest.

Was thinking of saying something of the like "because deez nuts".....I just feel they might understand it a tad better.

That’s what you think, until they start serving you ads based on your cock size

Fuck fb and the way they hack people's brains.

Let me guess: They have to mail the form in.

Justification: because you're greedy motherfcukers, and I don't like you.

> Should I just smash my Oculus Quest 2 to pieces with a sledgehammer, chuck the remains out a window, and then buy a new VR headset at this point?

No! Sell it for a competitive price so someone who was going to give them money now… won’t.

That’s gotta be fucking illegal when you look at the GDPR. No other company that uses data could get away with this.

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Yeah an idiot. This probably breaks a shitload of European regulations and will result in significant fines for facebook.

>When are the American companies going to get this?

Sometimes after it actually costs them money.