back to article Contracts trading personal data for digital content: Rights to remedy, redress required

Consumers should not have had to actively provide their personal data in return for digital content to be supplied to them to benefit from consumer protection rights relating to the supply of that content, a committee of MEPs has said. A new directive on contracts for the supply of digital content was proposed by the European …

  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    It takes the MEPs to do this, not MPs. Why wonder that so many of us think leaving is a bad idea?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      It takes the MEPs to do this, not MPs

      I suspect this is the usual French envy politics at work, hoping to snipe at all the US tech companies that trade data for services or software. As there's so few French companies doing this, there's no real downside for them.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Did you ask your MP?

      Yep, thought not. Typical remoaner.

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