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German court: Entire modern Internet is illegal, embedding anything breaks the GDPR

article published on 31 January, 2022

German regional court just dropped a total bombshell of a ruling today. Court decided that the way how virtually all modern websites function, is actually illegal under the European Union GDPR legislation. And all this over a 100 euro fee. Behind all the madness is a court case against an unnamed German website, a lawsuit filed by a single person. And because the website used a specific font. ... [ read the full article ]

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ChikaraNZ
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_ 		4. February 2022 @ 02:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well, if the IP address is classed as private information under GDPR legislation, then this is technically a correct ruling by the court.

Many people are more privacy conscious nowadays, and I think most would not be aware that Google, and other big sites, receives their IP address in these situations and uses that data to potentially build their profile on you. If this can go some way to either stopping that behaviour, or building more awareness of it, it's a good thing regardless of the practical consequences of it.
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scorpNZ
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_ 		9. February 2022 @ 22:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Can be circumvented by using duckduckgo & installing the duckduckgo extension. Without the extension duckduckgo is no different than google as it allows data collection by websites
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