Reapplying for my benefit, there are about 7 check boxes I have to tick before I can submit the reapplication form. This is classic consent theatre.

WINZ could literally put 'supply us with full custody of your first born as a mining slave on a distant planet' on the form. Then claim I'd voluntarily sold her into slavery when they turned up to deport her to Pluto, because my only alternative to ticking that box is starving on the streets.

This is not how consent works.

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#ConsentTheatre

“here we are, in the last days of 2022, and the private right of action [0] is about to do what the Irish regulators wouldn't do: force Facebook to obey the law.”

@pluralistic #GDPR #Privacy #EqualAccess #ConsentTheatre #RevealedPreference

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/#schrems-revenge

[0] “the right of individuals to sue companies that violate the law, rather than having to convince a public prosecutor to take up their case.”