> I took that screenshot on my own account. It’s toggled “on”—but I never turned it on myself.
There is a consent crisis as well, though I agree it's a smaller issue related to trust. There needs to be an actionable, legal definition of consent as it applies to website privacy—my naive assumption is that there was, but clearly that's not true, or it's not good enough or actionable enough—and it needs to preclude implying users must positively grant consent to harvest, process, or transfer data to third parties, when in fact the dirty deeds have already been done in secret.
There is a consent crisis as well, though I agree it's a smaller issue related to trust. There needs to be an actionable, legal definition of consent as it applies to website privacy—my naive assumption is that there was, but clearly that's not true, or it's not good enough or actionable enough—and it needs to preclude implying users must positively grant consent to harvest, process, or transfer data to third parties, when in fact the dirty deeds have already been done in secret.