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The Tech Industry Doesn't Understand Consent – Opt-Out Is Not Consent

soatok.blog published 2024-02-285 min read

Thanks to Samantha Cole at 404 Media, we are now aware that Automattic plans to sell user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com (which is the host for my blog) for “AI” products. In respon…

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