Global Privacy Control
Several legal frameworks exist — and more are on the way — within which people have the right to request that their privacy be protected, including requests that their data not be sold or shared beyond the business with which they intend to interact.
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Several legal frameworks exist — and more are on the way — within which people have the right to request that their privacy be protected, including requests that their data not be sold or shared beyond the business with which they intend to interact.
Requiring that people manually express their rights for each and every site they visit is, however, impractical.
Given the ease and frequency with which personal information is collected and sold when a consumer visits a website, consumers should be able to request to be excluded just as easily on a global level. This regulation offers consumers a global choice to opt-out of the sale of personal information, rather than having to visit each website to make individual requests to each company every time they use a new browser or device.
The Sec-GPC (Global Privacy Control) request header indicates whether the user consents to a website or service selling or sharing their personal information with third parties. The specification does not define how the user can withdraw or grant consent for the website.