Aaron Peters
Ralf BendrathA German court has just declared a "Do Not Track" #DNT signal from your browser as legally binding, pursuant to Article 21(5) #GDPR. https://www.vzbv.de/urteile/gericht-untersagt-datenschutzverstoesse-von-linkedin
Walter van Holst@bendrath Oh, that would be such wonderful news if true. Also at a personal level. That W3C working group took more from me than I had to give,
Fosstonaut (Gamey) 
@bendrath Wait a second, that actually happened?! It's something every even remotely privacy expert, enthusiast and whatever else in europe tolled every fucking single person complaining about cookie banners should have been in the GDPR from the start, let's hope we can get approval from a European court soon too!
Brodie Robertson@bendrath Good luck with that one
Minnie "Calabaza" Mel@bendrath
Angel on my shoulder: what if site developers don't know about DNT headerd yet?!
Devil on my shoulder: nothing to worry about if there's no tracking done in the first place
Angel on my shoulder: what if site developers don't know about DNT headerd yet?!
Devil on my shoulder: nothing to worry about if there's no tracking done in the first place
Peter Schaar (en)
Ulrike Hahn@bendrath @TEG this will also pose a problem for the Bluesky terms of service which explicitly state that they do not consider #DNT binding
see under 5 https://blueskyweb.xyz/support/privacy-policy
matto@Ruth_Mottram @bendrath No dark patterns there :) Great, and understandable ruling, with big impact.
harsh@bendrath I only have the decision in German as a scanned PDF https://www.vzbv.de/sites/default/files/2023-10/23-10-10_Stn_vzbv_HKNRV_Gas_W%C3%A4rme_und_K%C3%A4lte_final_0.pdf Does anyone have an English version? I'm very keen to read this case. I'm also interested in asking how do we get a EDPB acknowledgement of DNT and what it means for the signal to be.
Stephan Eggermont@bendrath great. That should get rid of the cookie banners. Right?
Denian@StOnSoftware "Oh no, our cookies are totally not used to track you - they are used to enhance your user experience! Here, want a couple thousand?"
Aral Balkan@bendrath @johanbove This is huge. Exactly as it should be. Now time to implement this across the EU and for #Safari to reimplement DNT.
Curtis McHale
Jon
Lilian Edwards@bendrath wow. Only ten years late. .
@lilianedwards Better late than never!
Ricardo Tavares@bendrath Hasn’t DNT been deprecated by browsers for years now?
@t_var_s At least Firefox still has it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature
@bendrath If you then want to implement it, you get this warning in the Mozilla web docs:
This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible;
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DNT
Jfrench
FrayJay@bendrath so what, now I sue every website I visit that shows me the *do you want coolies* plate? Nice. On it! ;)
Kevin RussellThis is FANTASTIC NEWS!
Sylvhem@bendrath Wow, that’s really nice! I hope that ruling gets confirmed.
infox