Amendment 466· 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 data. Such means should follow the state of the art. They can be implemented in the settings of a web browser or in the EU Digital Identity Wallet as set out by Regulation (EU) 914/2014, or any other adequate means. Rules set out in this Regulation should support the emergence of market-driven solutions with appropriate interfaces. Such means should be interoperable, so that a signal expressed at one level, whether terminal, operating system, browser, application or website, is recognised and given effect at the others, including between different applications and between different terminal devices used by the same data subject, and should not constitute a single mandatory mechanism nor be provided in a manner that concentrates the management of consent within a single system or entity. The technical means should not be designed or operated so as to confer on the provider of a browser, operating system or terminal a preferential position in obtaining, refusing or managing consent. 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 web browsers 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.

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