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Re:Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores by bonzini on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @05:22AM (#14408667)
There are some things that must have a separate opt-in from the bare minimum that's necessary to provide the service.

Typically, there are three bullets on European privacy forms: handling personal data to provide the service, handling personal data for commercial and advertising purposes, sharing personal data with third parties (usually for commercial and advertising purposes). Pre-printed forms can only have the first ticked to yes, the other two must be filled in by the customer.

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Re:Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores by tskaiser on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @05:41AM (#14408743)
But can ticking those boxes be mandatory for using a service? ie. "if you don't tick all three boxes you won't have access to Google Search"?
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Re:Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores by bonzini on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:36PM (#14412338)
No. Anything not strictly necessary must be opt-in.

See also: https://www.google.it/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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