Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

Gute Frage: Warum verbraucht #KünstlicheIntelligenz eigentlich so viel #Energie?

LRZ-Leiter Dieter Kranzlmueller und Gerard de Melo vom Hasso Plattner Institute geben Antworten und sprechen mit der Abendzeitung München über Lösungen: https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/die-ki-brauchts-kuehl-so-viel-strom-frisst-ein-muenchner-rechenzentrum-art-1052324

@Hasso_Plattner_Institute

Making interesting & pleasant new acquaintances is the most important thing when visiting a conference. Our colleague and co-coordinator @AnnaJacyszyn today at the Digital Health Innovation Forum at HPI in Potsdam

#digitalhealth #conference @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @Hasso_Plattner_Institute @gdm @nicholson @nicholson #innovation #digitalization

How the 'Frankfurt kitchen' triggered a domestic revolution

Around a century ago, working in the kitchen was still cumbersome and inefficient. But then a Viennese architect had a groundbreaking idea that has endured to this day: the fitted kitchen.
https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-frankfurt-kitchen-triggered-a-domestic-revolution/a-71110897

Motivating picture for concern about #AIRegulation, by @gdm!

I so love that we can edit on mastodon, so that I can correct this after he followed me. OTOH, I've had about 20 new followers on mastodon so far since the US election, and about 5,000 on Bluesky.

At a crazy panel on the #AIAct at
at HPI Potsdamm
Meta (Harmen Zell, echoing Nick Clegg) double down on hating ALL EU reg, AWS (Carsten Kestermann) say it's great / reduces uncertainty as does Armand Zorn MdB who negotiated the AIA, and is superb here. Yet Philipp Hacker (an academic) is also beating up on EU vs US regulation, what??

AWS's Kerstermann is really doubling down on how great German competence in #digitalGovernance is and demanding they do the job they're capable of.