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by ardy42 2226 days ago
> What would you think about a law that makes easy opt-outs mandatory, with heavy fines for non-compliance?

Better, but still not good enough. Finding and filling out 300 simple forms is still a lot of work and requires perfect vigilance. IMHO, opt-out is basically privacy theater: make it theoretically possible but practically impossible.

Any opt-out system that comes anywhere close to being effective is just one default-change away from being the opt-in system that is should be.