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Re:Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon by mkesper on Friday November 04, 2016 @05:38AM (#12871307)
The info collected is not considered as consented by the user in Germany by the Hamburg commissioner for data protection: "disclosure of personal data, companies need basically a data subject's consent." "an extensive evaluation the data by Web of Trust is therefore under German law "not allowed"

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

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Re:Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon by RobAley on Friday November 04, 2016 @09:15AM (#12872270)
And I think, assuming its the same as many other EU countries, that means active consent, not just implicit (e.g. you used the product so you implicitly consented to the privacy policy)
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