[waisbrot]

How did you determine "knowingly, and with clear consent"?

I guess I'd agree that if someone wrote a 5 page paper describing all the ways that Facebook harvests their data and what might be done with it afterwards then they should be allowed to do what they want? But I suspect most people would be like "uhhh, I think they, um, know what pages I liked? And maybe they use that for ads?"

[ovao]

I'm not referring to Facebook specifically. The dialog that Facebook's displaying to EU users (according to the tweet) isn't actually very clear in itself about what they're asking users for.

"Clear consent", in my mind, would be something along the lines of "we use tracking cookies and tracking on widgets third-party websites embed, as well as the data you provide to us in terms of posts, comments, photos and other content to personalize the ads you see". If you accept those terms, well, then you certainly can't be surprised when Facebook — or whoever — does precisely that.