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I'm sorry but the word is "consent" not "intent" and that's literally how consent works.

If I (a complete stranger to you) walk up to you and kiss you on the lips, it doesn't make a difference whether you're wearing a t-shirt informing everyone you don't want strangers to kiss you on the lips or not - I don't have any basis on which I can presume to have obtained your consent so I'd still be violating your rights.

This is very much a "tech bros don't understand consent" case: if you do something without consent, you better have a damn good reason other than "but it's good for meeee" (or "good for my bottom line"). "My business model depends on it" also isn't a good justification - there are plenty of business models that depend on things that are unquestionably illegal, we just refer to them as "criminal enterprises" rather than "disruptive startups".



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