Does The Verge really value my privacy if they share my personal data with 843 partners? It seems unlikely that they’re taking appropriate care.

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I’d like to read this article on The Verge, but not so much that sharing my personal data with 848 surveillance companies seems like a fair price.

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Does the RHS need to share my personal data with hundreds of partner companies? Seems unlikely, but it looks like my privacy isn’t a priority.

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I wanted to know when Jasmine flowers. The Royal Horticultural Society wants to share my personal data with hundreds of their “partners”. How is this reasonable?

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Why do Conde Nast’s partners need to identify me by my device characteristics? There’s no obvious reason for this to be “necessary” for my use of the site, so this appears to be deliberate non-compliance with the Data Protection Act.

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On mobile, Locus won’t even let you read their cookie policy without first accepting the cookies. Fail.

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They value my privacy but have 1,540 “partners” who need to process my personal data? No.

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Conde Nast and Ars Technica surely understand what is required to achieve valid consent from their site visitors. They just choose not to bother.

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New republic missing the point about surveillance advertising

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Consent is required to drop cookies on a user’s device but to be valid, that consent must be informed and freely given. Disappointing to see a low-quality non-compliant cookie banner on the website of a Government legal department.

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