“Do Not Track” is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn::Landgericht Berlin gibt Klage des vzbv gegen die LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company weitgehend statt
“Do Not Track” is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn::Landgericht Berlin gibt Klage des vzbv gegen die LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company weitgehend statt
Luckily in Germany the law states that at least the “Decline all cookies” button has to be in the same place as the “Accept all cookies” one. So at least the local sites are kind of easy to navigate.
Only problem at the moment are “Accept all cookies or buy a subscription” banners. But as far as I know the courts are inclined to side with the customers on this one as well.
I mean, most companies still don’t abide by it tho. There’s lots of sites where you can accept all cookies or you have to jump through a few hoops to decline the non essential ones.
I just open any site with one of those cookie-banners in a private window so that any cookie it creates will be deleted as soon as the window is closed.
Am I supposed to trust the company to correctly define ‘essential?’ Seems easy to weasel around and makes me nervous.
It’s almost certainly going to be litigated at some point, so a court is going to define “essential”… eventually.