[HN Gopher] Largest GDPR fines surpass $1.3B
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       Largest GDPR fines surpass $1.3B
        
       Author : giacaglia
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-03-22 19:44 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | mritun wrote:
       | The section on " How to avoid GDPR fines in 2022" is naive to a
       | fault.
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       | My personal opinion is that after recent rulings startups need to
       | be very careful. GDPR compliance is practically a nightmare for
       | any entity that even so much implements visitor counter with
       | default http logging turned on.
       | 
       | It will be interesting to see how solutions and landscape evolves
       | once GDPR fines come to smaller companies and startups.
        
       | m4l3x wrote:
       | "According to France's privacy watchdog CNIL, Youtube users only
       | had to click once to accept cookies, whereas refusing cookies
       | took multiple clicks.
       | 
       | CNIL's complaint stated that Google purposefully made the consent
       | mechanisms more complex to push consumers to accept cookies--a
       | clear violation of the GDPR's requirement that companies provide
       | equally simple ways to opt into or out of data collection."
       | 
       | So these dark patterns are officially violating GDPR. However
       | there are still tons of websites implementing this.
        
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