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Today I filed a formal complaint against #YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for their illegal deployment of #adblock detection technologies.
Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.
In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.
You can help by filing your own complaint here:
https://forms.dataprotection.ie/contact
The more complaints the DPC receives - the quicker they will act.
You can use my complaint to help write your own (attached).
I cannot stress enough how important it is for you all to take the 5-10 minutes it takes to file this complaint.
If the Irish DPC receives only my complaint they will likely not pay it any attention for at least 18 months if at all - but if they receive 10 000 complaints it will seriously eat into their budget (it costs money to handle complaints) and will "motivate" them to act much faster.
If they receive 100 000 complaints - YouTube will be forced to stop this very quickly indeed.
I think it is quite far-fetched to interpret this directive in this way.
A directive is not even a law anyway as a regulation would be.
Youtube does not need to store anything on your computer to know that you are manipulating their site, they can simply include a function that verifies the integrity of the site in junction with your request for data.
Youtube is fully in their right to verifty the integrity of the service they are providing to you.
@zinke you are welcome to your opinion - it isn’t shared by the Court, the Regulators, the EU Commission or I, but you are welcome to it.
Instead of being stuck in the past of a supposed 2016 EU comment on the issue you should read something more up to date like this press release that clarifies upon the things you have misinterpreted:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_17_17
@zinke an unauthorised statement which was later clarified and withdrawn on the basis that it was not an official Commission position and that the formal legal opinion I received was the official position.
Have a great day!
@zinke and I should add, a position that didn’t even make it into the text of the proposed Regulation the press release was about - a Regulation I actually helped to draft.
Bye bye now.
@thatprivacyguy Do you have a source on any of all that? I think you are just pulling things out of a hat.