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by tpxl 1268 days ago
Reset all preferences to 'no' for affected users, and ask them on the next login whether they would like this or not. Simple.
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Simple for you and I, but not so simple if you're a lawyer working for Meta that can twist words and interpretations of those words strung together into sentences in a legal contract. At the end of the day, you and I don't matter in our interpretations. It is the lawyers and judges. Who do you trust?
GDPR actually mandates consent to be informed, so a simple, user-friendly explanation is more likely to win over 100 pages of legalese.