FYI: interesting legal privacy initiative, relevant to WoT and other work.

It is obviously early days, but this amendment to the FTC Act could deliver
autonomy/user control capabilities to the Web, and other internet
protocols/ecosystems. It suggests an FTC controlled website where users
could opt-out/opt-in to data collection, examine previous choices etc. with
an API that Things/UAs/apps could use to get the users preference. For the
web the DNT or a follow on API could be used to register the recorded user
preference in UAs.

https://gizmodo.com/wyden-unveils-new-plan-to-protect-private-data-restore-1
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