Amendment 24· Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 46

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(46) Data subjects should have the possibility to rely on automated and machine-readable indications of their choice to consent or refuse a consent request or object to the processing of datachoices. Such means should follow the state of the art. They can be implemented in the settings of online interfaces such as of a web browser, ora inmobile theoperating EUsystem, Digitala Identitymobile Wallet as set out by Regulation (EU) 914/2014application, or any other adequate means. Rules set out in this Regulation should support the emergence of interoperable, market-driven solutions with appropriate interfaces able to guarantee respect of data subject’s choices. The controller should be obliged to respect automated and machine-readable indications of data subject’s choices once there are available standards. In light of the importance of independent journalism in a democratic society and in order not to undermine the economic basis for that, media service providers should not be obliged to respect the machine-readable indications of data subject’s choices. The obligation for providers of webonline browsersinterfaces to provide the technical means for data subjects to make choices with respect to the processing should not undermine the possibility for media service providers to request consent by data subjects. Providers of software to access online interfaces should provide automated signals without creating new profiling or tracking layers. Any software to access online interfaces should not make the exercise of choices or rights by the user unduly difficult, including by offering choices to the user in a non-neutral manner, or by coercing, deceiving or manipulating the data subject, or by subverting or impairing the autonomy, decision-making or choices of the data subject, including by means of an online interface or a part thereof. For example software allowing data subjects to manage their options should not highlight or preselect any option nor incite data subjects by other means.

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