Re: And the rest too, please
I am curious as to how long it takes after landing on a page for the site to set cookies and/or start to harvest data, particularly those sites that deliberately seem to have convoluted opt out pages, when under the current law as I understand it, they need to receive your consent.
I also find the 'legitimate interests' that seem to always be set to on are for the most part not legal without specific consent even though it appears so because there is no explanation of what they are.
Here from the ICO:
"the term ‘legitimate purpose’ refers to facilitating the provision of an information society service – ie, a service the user explicitly requests. This does not include third parties such as analytics services or online advertising."
On most sites legitimate purpose or interest is used as a catch all to con the user into leaving a lot of undesirable data scraping live.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
