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0 pointsread_if_gay_4y ago0 comments

> should be required to design their products to stop this happening.

How?

How are you going to stop people from sharing images of what your software produced?

There might be more context to this quote but is insane how out of touch lawmakers often appear to be with respect to technology. Just look at all of the cookie banners plastered with dark patterns which completely nullify the idea behind them.

How do we create working legislation for technology?

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tester344y ago

Store who, where and what kind of image has generated with your tool and attach metadata to file like EXIF

I guess?

laurowyn4y ago

So just delete the exif data, and we're back to square one.

howaboutnope4y ago

> Just look at all of the cookie banners plastered with dark patterns

That's thanks to webmasters who want to track visitors on the first visit, instead, of, say, having an opt-in link somewhere in the footer. It's amazing how much FUD is spread about the GDPR, and it's ironic in context of accusing lawmakers of cluelessnes, who in this case demonstrated more clue than millions of people apparently have about their own job.

read_if_gay_OP4y ago

Cookie banners are utterly ineffective.

The websites create the problem in the first place, that's obvious, but lawmakers are apparently too incompetent to come up with effective solutions.

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