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Re:Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environmen... by mschuster91 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:30AM (#27746950)
> And don’t such tools require GDPR consent to allow tracking or processing PII?

They actually do, yes. I can see an auto-update "phone home" as justified interest to be able to quickly revoke insecure software, but usage analytics are clearly opt-in only.

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