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As GDPR draws close, ICANN suggests 12 conflicting ways to cure domain privacy pains

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On GDPR...

From what I can see, companies are using enforced consent to meet GDPR. If you visit a page or try to use an online service, they leave an unticked box with "Tick to agree to our terms and conditions" with no option of proceeding without ticking. Somewhere in those terms and conditions is a legalese set of terms to allow them to do whatever they want with your data.

So we're heading to the bizarre situation that it becomes more and more difficult to use online services anonymously, because all the services require an agreement tick before proceeding (looking at Google...) and then add a tracker to prove you've agreed, which they must track to prove consent (and each private browsing session will require ticking lots of agree boxes). And worse, you get no options on what you're agreeing to unless you create an account with them in order to manage their privacy settings(!). Instead of being anonymous by default, the consent requirement requires you to be identifiable.

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