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?".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.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 right to record who transacts with you? Isn't that information yours, 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?