IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR
Am I the only one who thinks this is all a bit mental? Say you have a (real, physical) business. And say you have some customers who are regulars. You can use your eyes to see what your customers frequently buy/engage with and your brain to remember. You can also use a notepad to write things down. This is commonplace - "The usual today John?".<p>Now say John travels to another town, and the proprietor of a similar establishment in that town, wanting to provide John with the best level of service, calls you to ask "Hey, what does John like?", and you tell them.<p>Now we just supplement your eyes and notepad with technology, and replace phone calls with packet exchanges. What has changed exactly? Don't you have a <i>right</i> to record who transacts with you? Isn't that information <i>yours</i>, to do with as you please? Can "John" command us to forget we ever saw him? Where in this sequence are anyone's rights violated? How is any of this reasonable?