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The actual issue is where user consent is actioned I.e. enforced. Originally it had to be by site-administered JavaScript because DNT & its API were allowed to be ignored. The lobbyists called this the cookie banner approach which they undermined by emphasising performance over enforcement.

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All browser & similar providers would have to implement or lose access to European market. We have extensive, over decades, experience of the detail required via our involvement with the DNT process, our invention of the server administered consent platform etc. we are ready to help.

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.. process to define the detail. The process can not be left to bodies such as the cartel dominated W3C, it should be a new body created jointly by the EDPB & EUDPS.

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It’s clearly better that clients do the enforcement because efficacy can be checked more easily, but there needs to be sophisticated API support to communicate controller intent & purpose to the client. The outlines of this API must be defined robustly in law then passed to a standardising ..

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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A year ago today I said it would not be necessary to contemplate child social media ban if we had faith in our regulators or tech. Strong tools exist but go unused: -AI Act Art 1(b) -GDPR Art 8 and 9 -AVMSD Art 28 (b)(1) -DSA (interim measures, crisis response mechanism) www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

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ICCL Enforce calls for digital enforcement to protect children - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Remarks of Johnny Ryan at the Media, Internet & Data Protection Bar Association. He called for enforcement of regulation against tech firms.

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

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Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye @samcaseyr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’ve always loved this painting, so much love here

David Hockney’s painting of his mum sitting and dad reading

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Valerie O'Neill @minabird.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

For years while we warned against surveillance advertising the Tech Bro's were getting mega rich & powerful, & many couldn't get enough of them. Now tech oligarchs are wrecking the rules based order these same people want to blame the Boomers - most of whom did not actually "have it all"

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Jess Phillips is right. Google and the the other surveillance monopolists and their retinue are tracking us all anyway. Our fundamental right to privacy must be protected by the rule of law. Starmer has put the ball in their court, and will follow with properly debated legislation if needs be.

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Spot on. And its unfortunate that some reading this comment prefer social media trickery, e.g. blocking & dogpiling, to entering into constructive debate.

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Interesting contribution to the debate. Did you use ChatGPT ?

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Some of them know exact ages. So what if some don't, they can use a democratically managed credential management service We are where we are today because a generation so enthusiastically embraced Big Tech, oblivious to where that would lead. Government now has to act, & many support them in that.

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Who knows what data they hold or can link to, but that's not the point. Age credential data can be obtained in privacy protective ways, in a way properly administered probably by the public sector. The tech companies can & should implement on-device pattern recognition technology to act on it.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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Newcastle upon Tyne, 1969, photo by Robert Blomfield.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026

Me, Grandma & my OM-1 circa 1974

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The answer is all too obvious; Labour has not appointed its sole, respected technology professional, Chi Onwurah, to a tech-related ministry because her independent professional expertise means she <knows> about tech, how it works, who it can but does work for, and how to tell when its lobbyists lie

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Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)

DNT included the ability to signal consent, withdrawal of consent, and right-to object. We drafted additions to signal purposes to enable informed & specific consent & were involved throughout as you can see: www.w3.org/TR/tracking-... lists.w3.org/Archives/Pub...

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This specification defines the DNT request header field as an HTTP mechanism for expressing a user's preference regarding tracking, an HTML DOM property to make that expression readable by...

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W3C Tracking Protection Working Group

This was before that, from 2011-2017 the Tracking Protection Working Group with widespread stakeholders including key players from industry, civil society and privacy regulation, including the EU Commission and the Article 29 Working Party (forerunner of the EDPB). www.w3.org/2011/trackin...

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It reflected legal requirements of ePrivacy & EUDP (then GDPR), both right-to-object & consent, still lacking in pale imitations like GPC. It also had clear definitions of “tracking” & how origins must respond. Only one attempt at full browser-native implementation abandoned by Microsoft.

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