

Īll data collected through the TCF must now be deleted by the more than 1,000 companies that pay IAB Europe to use the TCF. Thereby, the TC String supports a system posing great risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subjects, in particular in view of the large scale of personal data involved, the profiling activities, the prediction of behaviour, and the ensuing surveillance of data subjects." įurther, “consent is not a valid basis for the processing operations in the OpenRTB facilitated by the TCF”. " the TC String plays a pivotal role in the current architecture of the OpenRTB system.

Today, GDPR enforcers ruled that this consent spam has, in fact, deprived hundreds of millions of Europeans of their fundamental rights. The tracking industry claimed it was a measure to comply with the GDPR.

The consent popup system known as the “Transparency & Consent Framework” (TCF) is on 80% of the European internet. In a decision of 2 February 2022, 28 EU data protection authorities, led by the Belgian Data Protection Authority as the leading supervisory authority in the GDPR’s one-stop-mechanism, found that the online advertising industry’s trade body “IAB Europe” commits multiple violations of the GDPR in its processing of personal data in the context of its “Transparency and Consent Framework” (TCF) and the Real-Time Bidding (RTB) system. (Updated on 5 February with additional detail and infringements) This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.Ģ February 2022. All data collected through them must be deleted. You can see it happen, with the AI not having completed its turn yet and beats you to the Wonder right as you’re opening up the Wonder screen.EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. I’ve had turns where those popups are literally what stops me from beating the AI to picking something, where the turnover completes and I’m trying to claim a Wonder before anyone else can, and the AI gets it first simply by virtue of me having to close out all the damn popups first. Some can be hidden by closing the notification track, like diplomacy alerts, curiosities, etc, but others can’t - such as Era Stars, Research Unlocks, and Wonders Completing. Namely, we have no way that I’ve found to disable notifications popping up. Or rather, its annoying due to lack of a single UI feature, lol. The low turn-complete wait is largely due, I think, to the fact that the AI take their turns while you do, instead of doing them all at once at the end, like so many 4X games do.īut that has an annoying consequence. What annoys me about this feature is kind of petty, lol.
