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Re:How will the GDPR impact machine learning? by downandout on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:26PM (#17139412)
The difference is that before, they had to click accept in order to receive whatever service they were trying to obtain. Now they don't. Also, the sheer number of consent dialogs they will encounter will rise exponentially.
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Re:How will the GDPR impact machine learning? by erichocean on Saturday May 26, 2018 @04:50AM (#17160948)
> The difference is that before, they had to click accept in order to receive whatever service they were trying to obtain. Now they don't.

This doesn't receive nearly enough attention.

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