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 an out to get around tracking users.
I wouldn’t be surprised is many data trackers don’t pay attention to any of the permissions and agreements. It’s hard to validate they aren’t in compliance and it’s hard for most people to even challenge these businesses.
Even if these businesses where legally challenged they can just close the business. Then take the same software and start a new business doing the same thing. If you look at the amount of companies you information is shared with under legitimate interests it can be in the order of hundreds.
Not hundreds but thousands. I saw one app that claimed to share the data with like 815 partners
This is the worst one I’ve been subjected to so far. Was on some gaming-related site, don’t remember which one
New high score. Nice
What?
So the gaming site/high score connection wasn’t intended? Oh well 🤷
Idk what’s a dite. The reason of why I said it like that wasn’t to make connection with gaming. Unfortunately I can’t tell the reason
It’s a site, except with a typo lol
organizations like la quadrature validate and challenge those businesses. Europe is relatively strict on this subject.