Oracle Data Cloud sets a new low for ad network GDPR "opt-out from cookie tracking" pages:
You have to enter your full name and physical address details in order to "opt out".
Yeah, nah, bro.
@natecull well, someone's breaking the law
@noiob What can "the law" do to the company who runs the databases that the law uses, and who can shut them off with a click of a switch?
Prosecute Oracle and go back to manual typewriters?
@natecull I don't think Oracle wants to go to war with some European country over this
@noiob Going to war does involve a bothersome amount of paperwork. I suspect that's why the fine print on that page seems to suggest that it's only users in the United States for which they hold data anyway.
But I would like to see a country try to fight an air war against Boeing, or a cyberwar against Oracle. How do you fight the sole-source provider of your military's equipment? Admittedly they'd be very slow to react, cos it's Oracle, but eventually, you'd get even worse customer service.
@natecull the heck are you talking about, Boeing isn't building the only planes in the world
@noiob Well sure, you could go to the Russians, I suppose.
@noiob I guess there's also Lockheed Martin. So America still has two plane companies, until those two merge.
