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UK petition to ban harvesting of behavioural metadata for ads
(petition.parliament.uk)
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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It's a step into into the right direction.
Doing something late is better than doing nothing at all.
Yes our data is already out there but at least we can make it illegal for them to collect more new data, it probably won't stop them but it's a start.
Yes but I meant it as a recognition that our institutions are failing us, have been failing us for a long time.
Yeah they are.
This is a typical case of that the lawmakers have near 0 IT comprehension unfortunately.
stop crying about it and do something about it then
Hang on, overturning the government any minute now, those elites are really hard to scrape of the asphalt