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Re:Tech companies are profiling us from before birth by PeterisP on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:57PM (#25829084)
It probably does not need any specific consideration, as consent can be freely withdrawn at any time (GDPR Art 7.3), so the consent not passing over is equivalent to consent passing over but the child deciding to withdraw it the moment they are legally able to - in any case, legal consent persists only if the legal decisionmaker actually consents.

And it's worth noting that this is not about collection of data but use of data - if the legal basis of the processing was consent (perhaps there was a different legal basis, then consent isn't relevant) then withdrawing the consent does not make the earlier processing illegal, but it does require the controller to stop processing (using) the data they collected while they had consent and ensure that any processors to whom they delegated data processing do so as well.

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Re:Tech companies are profiling us from before birth by ROARosen on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:35PM (#25829338)
OK, but withdrawing requires a process on the part of the child, what I'm referring to is even without a process of withdrawing consent. Since the child has never consented to begin with, shouldn't it automatically be illegal to continue?

Additionally, the child will usually not know every site their parent has consented to tracking use.

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