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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by icebraining on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:33AM (#18122617)
Freely given consent, as per the GDPR, must be explicit and optional (even if you have consent to use the data for the service being performed). A line buried in a ToS does not comply.
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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by TomMarius on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:34AM (#18122628)
That's today, I replied to a comment talking about the GDPR-less past.
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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by icebraining on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:37AM (#18122655)
My point is that you can simply change the previous comment to read:

"And then, without your freely given consent, without even notifying you they sold this information to credit score companies, to advertising companies and to whoever the fuck will buy it."

And the point still applies.

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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by TomMarius on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:38AM (#18122670)
No, the original point doesn't apply. Your edits make it completely different, so of course my reaction would be nonsense. "Consent" is a well defined word, and its meaning was fulfilled in the examples the comment listed - of course that would be different today.
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