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Author:  l3v1ck [ Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:46 pm ]
Post subject:  EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
News CLICKY
Quote:
"Pre-ticked" boxes on shopping websites will be banned in European Union states under newly approved legislation.

EU ministers meeting in Luxembourg have passed a set of rules aimed at strengthening consumer rights, which the EU parliament backed in June.

They mean online traders will have to disclose the total cost of a product - including fees - and customers will have to actively opt-in to extras.

Member countries will have two years to implement the rules nationally..........

I'm sure Ryan Air will do their best to get round this. The love ripping people off with card charges.
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
The Consumer Rights Directive has been a long time coming, and it's very welcome.

For more information on what it does, see here:

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAct ... &type=HTML
Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
I wonder if it covered this kind of wording and configuration:

[ ] I do not want to give you an extra £100

(I bet it does, but the news reports I have been reading give them impression that it doesn’t by virtue of not explaining it properly)
Author:  l3v1ck [ Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
paulzolo wrote:
I wonder if it covered this kind of wording and configuration:

[ ] I do not want to give you an extra £100

I was thinking the same thing
paulzolo wrote:
(I bet it does, but the news reports I have been reading give them impression that it doesn’t by virtue of not explaining it properly)

I made the same assumption.
Author:  belchingmatt [ Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
I wonder how this would apply if organ donation became opt-out.

Only a thought as this ban supposedly covers commercial sites only.
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
Linux_User wrote:
The Consumer Rights Directive has been a long time coming, and it's very welcome.

For more information on what it does, see here:

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAct ... &type=HTML

Directives are useless, whats needed are European regulation. Directives can give too much wiggle room and too much is left to interpretation by the member states in its implementation.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
Member states having room to interpret is a good thing.
The sooner this directive is brought into UK law the better.
Author:  JJW009 [ Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
l3v1ck wrote:
Member states having room to interpret is a good thing.

I dated a girl who worked in the department responsible for checking the member states interpretations. Apparently it's a linguistic nightmare. Most English people can't understand English legal spiel, so imagine what it's like when it's been translated a few times...
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:13 am ]
Post subject:  EU bans pre-ticked website boxes
JJW009 wrote:
l3v1ck wrote:
Member states having room to interpret is a good thing.

I dated a girl who worked in the department responsible for checking the member states interpretations. Apparently it's a linguistic nightmare. Most English people can't understand English legal spiel, so imagine what it's like when it's been translated a few times...

that's why regulations in this case would be better as each regulation has only one mother tongue interpretation. Which means if there's a dispute you go back to the original.
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