Like many folks who have appeared before this committee and committees dealing with related topics, I have a lot of concerns about how these power imbalances affect users' ability to offer consent that is meaningful and that is informed. When you click “accept” on a very length privacy notice, your ability to offer or provide consent is really challenged when the power imbalances that exist are such that you are an individual user and the company that might be collecting the data might have a market valuation that exceeds the size of a G7 country.
On December 4th, 2023. See this statement in context.