Browser Opt-Out Tool Shoots for Simplicity, Brings Uncertainty
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A web-browser tool that offers surfers a one-click way to implement their privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from state regulators and aggrieved consumers over the selling and sharing of consumer data.
  • Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    How about when just ban fucking tracking and spying so we don’t have to deal with so many different privacy control implementations.

  • Voxel@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Little reminder: the GDPR has been in effect since May 25, 2018.

    Under Art. 21(5) GDPR, automated opt-out signals like DNT and GPC have to be respected. That applies to everyone providing services in the EEA.

    So most of to who it applies to should already have done it since 2018.