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Yes there is. It's all over it. I'm not going to even bother linking to it. Making consent a precondition of service is an illegal method of obtaining consent,
by mattmanser 8y ago
Yes there is. It's all over it. I'm not going to even bother linking to it.
Making consent a precondition of service is an illegal method of obtaining consent, unless the service relies on that consent. So a run tracking app may legitimately say consent to track location is a precondition, because they need that data to actually deliver their service. Facebook and Google though? Obviously not. Also the run tracking app can't then sell that data to an ad network without permission, and that can't be a precondition, because that's not why the data is being supplied.
Facebook and Google may try and argue they need it in court. We will see what happens, but I hope they lose and we can finish this dark, Orwellian chapter of the internet sooner rather than later.