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You do but you can't be forced to agree, including by not being able to use the service if you decline.


I'm not sure about that second part.

If a service operator decides they don't want you using their service, they don't have to let you use it. That only gets murky around protected characteristics (race, sex, gender, orientation, etc) which "privacy" is not.

They could make access contingent on being allowed to process your data.




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