Legally they are required as of now to gather informed consent that is given freely.
Contrary to popular believe the EU has somewhat defined what that means (just read the law) and surprise: The way many datahogs wish it to be, isn't how the law was written.
E.g. if you trick or extort users into agreeing, consent was neither given informed nor freely. In front of the law it is as if you haven't asked for consent at all and GDPR fines can be up to 4% of the global turnover of the previous fiscal year. But yeah.
atoav|1 year ago
Contrary to popular believe the EU has somewhat defined what that means (just read the law) and surprise: The way many datahogs wish it to be, isn't how the law was written.
E.g. if you trick or extort users into agreeing, consent was neither given informed nor freely. In front of the law it is as if you haven't asked for consent at all and GDPR fines can be up to 4% of the global turnover of the previous fiscal year. But yeah.