On Mon, 2021-10-25 at 20:56 +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
FYI, an (I guess?) alternative viewpoint. I've no current position myself on this fwiw but no harm to be aware.
page 2: "Current thinking around digital consent".
They mean cookie banners. And they claim cookie banners don't work. Sorry, this is captain obvious on his once around the world ticket. And luckily, we now have a study that proves that captain obvious was obviously right.
Apart from that, they think "consumer protection" and mix up the attacking model of a Chinese dissident vs some facebook family group. If you put them in the same bucket, what could possibly go wrong?
For the real thing, see https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/AcquistiGrossklags-IEEESP-2005.pd...
--Rigo