I never consent to give my data away or being tracked, but how do you deal with so called legitimate interest? I tried several times to untick them but it is a long list (in fact at the bottom there is a “vendors” link with even longer, much longer list. It took me 10 minutes to get to the bottom of it once).
My questions:
-how can we trust these so called legitimate interests when they are self defined by companies whose business model relies on your data?
-how can we find out what these legitimate interests are and what data it collects?
-are such companies controlled in any way?
-is this kind of consent form compliant with EU gdpr? (normally opt out is to be as easy as opt in, and there is no “refuse all” for these so called legitimate interests).
-what are your strategies against such sites tracking you? Or am I just being paranoid?
The sheer amount vendors is daunting, the Internet really turned into crap
Edit: when clicking Preferences at the bottom the content of the legitimate interested is spelled out for each vendor, so this replies one of my questions.
Legitimate interest is just bullshit.
Can I have your:
- wallet
- emails received
- telephone number
- pin code
- visa card numbers
- browser history
- home address
- dates you won’t be home
- alarm code
I too am legitimately interested in this data.
Why are you asking for their consent? You’re using their personal data on the basis of your legitimate interest.
Hey, these faceless corporations deserve your info. /s
They’re legitimately interested in your data.
Legitimate Interest is an attempt at working around the GDPR using a loophole in the ruling meant to permit processing of data in situations such as when a business has a trading relationship with a client.
However the legal clarification from the EU Commission says: “Your company/organisation must also check that by pursuing its legitimate interests the rights and freedoms of those individuals are not seriously impacted, otherwise your company/organisation cannot rely on grounds of legitimate interest as a justification for processing the data and another legal ground must be found.” (see here) and there is a “right to privacy” in EU law.
So supposedly that nearly endless list of “partners” (read: advert providers, trackers and other assorted businesses who make money from breaking people’s privacy) cannot use legitimate interest to track you as that would break your right to privacy.
That said, in practice they probably do, and until they get fined hard they’ll keep on doing it, so as others said, don’t used a Chrome-based browser and use a good Ad Blocker add-on.
Your honor, it was not a rape, it was my legitimate interest in sex.
I mean depending on the context it might be a decent defense
Your choice of words was absolutely terrible. There is no such thing as a decent defense of rape. Now, an effective defense in our busted legal system? That’s a whole different story. But “decent” does not apply in cases of sexual assault and violence. Ever.
If the person is innocent until they are proven guilty. Also it is entirely possible they were innocent
Your reply is completely unrelated to what I said. There is no such thing as a decent defense for raping someone. If they didn’t rape anyone, good! If they did, that is an indefensible act by its very nature.
I made no comment at all on whether or not any specific individual is guilty or not. So I’m really confused what your point is here…?
You are saying that they don’t set a defense. No matter the crime, you deserve defense. No one, not even sexual predictors, deserve to be stripped of constitutional rights. Such things also are related to prejudice.
No. Read it again. I never said allegation. I never referenced court proceedings. I said the act of rape is indefensible.
If you commit rape, there is no “decent” defense. If you didn’t, then my comment doesn’t apply. Simple as that.
There is no excuse for sexual violence, and there never will be.
I’ve seen judges let offenders off light on worse arguments. Unfortunately.
I’ve scene abusive and insane spouses that accuse there husband of abuse and even rape
No u haven’t 🤥
“If it’s a legitimate interest, the browser has ways to try to shut that whole thing down”
How was the browser dressed?
fair enough, i have a legitimate interest in always blocking trackers and advertisements in every device i own too
OP:
posts about tracking and not consenting to give data away
also OP:
uses Google Chrome
Wrong, that’s Mulch. Uninstalling and deactivating Google apps is the first thing I do. Android system webview is the tricky one, but Mulch has a webview too. Still the default one manages to creep in sometimes, and deactivating it breaks things that call it specifically. Edit: there is a system webview setting under Developers tools, but Mulch’s does not appear there
Bromite and Cromite are a thing too
Yes I use Mull but this does not look like a Firefox-based browser
Mull is a firefox-based browser developed by DivestOS, Mulch is developed by the same team but it’s based on Chromium
Just autowipe cookies on pageloads. Use fast rotating vpn, tunnel through tor twice, run computer in ram only, remove all storage devices.
Amateur advice. Don’t own your own device. ask your friends to look up things for you on their devices, then print them out and mail them to your PO Box. Untraceable.
But how did you pay for the PO box? Using cash, think of the fingerprints. And don’t forget about the post office spies
Solution, don’t have an address or talk to anyone ever, scavenge your own food.
Untraceable
When the government takes your data they will call it legitimate
