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Implications of Global Privacy Control


Global Privacy Control (GPC) is on the way to becoming a formal privacy standard with the recent publication of its first working draft. Let's take a look at what the implications are for developers and users.

We can interpret this to mean that most respondents distrust social media and big tech companies regarding decision-making and consent as it relates to their data. The GPC signal will be intended to communicate a Do Not Sell request from a global privacy control, as per CCPA-REGULATIONS §999.315 for that browser or device, or, if known, the consumer. The examples above uss a placeholder optOutUser(userId) for illustration, but the backend should call whatever logic is needed to satisfy the user's choice.

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