Headworx

There are myriads of legal nonsense situations we encounter every day. Somehow the most often they are related to general information technology (IT). Definitely #1 are the EU cookie banners. David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) - the creator of Ruby on Rails - has been perhaps more vocal about the EU Cookie Mandate (specifically cookie banners) than almost anybody else. He views them as a prime example of well-intentioned but fundamentally "stupid" and failed legislation. He points out that companies have spent billions of dollars on compliance, legal fees, and implementation, yet there has been no material improvement to user privacy. Most users simply click "Accept" to get the banner out of the way, effectively granting the very tracking permissions the law intended to curb. And the bureaucracy refuses to admit the solution didn't work. And #2 are variety of Terms of Use (ToU) that must be accepted to do something. For example, when you first pull the battery tab o...