Re: "website operators should obtain the consent of site visitors before collecting data"
I was sent a link to an article for a UK newspaper by a friend, I opened the site and they had the privacy policy shown up front, OK to continue or control privacy settings. I chose control...
It displayed me a list of 275 tracking sites that were linked to the site and all were defaulted to ON! On top of that, there was no option to disable all of them, I had to literally click 275 times on the page to turn off the tracking. It is the last time I will visit that site or any other site that takes the Michael like that!