Comment by scarface74
3 years ago
> Btw here in EU GDPR also has effect in real world, just an example before GDPR you would get exam results published publicly with names,
In the US, for decades not even parents could know about their college students without the students signing paperwork.
> Same if you go to a clinic to do a blood tests, they need to give you a paper and specify exactly what they will do with your data.
HIPAA in the US never required cookie pop ups and has been the law for decades.
Its not exactly making a strong argument that there is one really complicated 11 chapter 99 section law that tries and failed badly to address different goals.
Yes, but HIPA is like EXTREMELY limited, GDPR apples to everything not only websites, mI attempted to clarify this since many confuse GDPR with "cookie law", so GDPR can't tell web-developers how to implement the popups or buttons since is a generic thing, the law specify that accepting and rejecting should be similarly easy , if it is not then you will need to report this bussiness and it takes time for them to get fined.
I am not sure why you guys in US see those popups, the websites could just continue tracking you and sell your data.