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This really needs to be hit with the GDPR hammer. Microsoft have not obtained consent for this.

Why would the EU possibly object to this? It is exactly what they want.

Ummmmmmmm. No.

Inserting a tracker that can personally identify me without my explicit opt-in consent is a GDPR breach. I'm surprised you do not not this.

So you will defeat chat control by sitting there going “but you don’t have muh gdpr consent for that!”?

The whole EU vision is they know what the little people do all the time, think all the time, and spend their money on all the time. For the children, obviously.

If you think "chat control" is going to pass, I've a bridge to sell you.

In the meantime, the GDPR is your friend. The amount of FUD spread about it on here by those working in Adtech (and whose very salaries are dependent on invading peoples privacy) is insane.

> If you think "chat control" is going to pass, I've a bridge to sell you.

I genuinely wish you were right, but you are so naive it is frightening.

> The amount of FUD spread about it on here by those working in Adtech

You are confused. You are arguing with people that want to protect privacy. The EU demonstrably is not doing that, as WhatsApp gets ever more de facto mandated by the day.

> This really needs to be hit with the GDPR hammer. Microsoft have not obtained consent for this.

At best they'd just disable it for EU... assuming they didn't successfully argue "it was in the ToS ..."

But the EU mandates watermarking of AI content.

As the article explained, the EU does not mandate a prompt-specific GUID, only the ability to identify the content as AI-generated. The highly privacy-invasive level of provenance tracking which Microsoft has added goes beyond the EU’s new mandates.

Watermarking ai generated stuff is mandated by EU

Do they require the watermark to be a unique token that can be associated with PII?

It doesn’t need to be a personally identifiable watermark.

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