New A29 Working Party Consent Guidelines contain few important changes I'll document here ec.europa.eu/newsroom/artic… THREAD 1/
A new crystal clear clarification that a data controller *cannot* argue a genuine choice is possible if a data subject can choose between that controllers' service that requires data, and a similar competitors' service that doesn't. Think Google Docs v Office 365. 2/ 
New elaborated example elaborating on bundled consent in marketing 3/
New examples clarifying detriment when you withdraw consent: you can't make app functionality conditional on non-necessary data, you can make personalisation decrease when you withdraw consent, and what I think is a super weird (and wrong?) example about a fashion magazine 4/
Reiteration that continuing to use a website cannot be consent 5/
Clarification that Article 9 explicit consent can be given with YES NO boxes but require contractual-like language not wave-through statements 6/
A tricky section on how to consent to Article 9 sensitive data that might be somewhat necessary for a contract has been added with examples (contract is not an Article 9 lawful basis) 7/
Tidying up of the "no backup lawful grounds" part to emphasise that the core reason would be a breach of the fairness principle 8/
If parents' expected to consent for a child, you don't have to provide child-friendly info. 9/
Complete U-turn on childrens' consent (@TheABB). Consent provided by parents no longer expires when child comes of age. Pink old, yellow new. 10/
Research consent should be separate from data protection consent when scientific processing is occurring 11/
A29 U-turn (more in line with GDPR) that scientific research can have more general purpose limitation 12/
If Article 9 special category data being processed however, purposes must be narrower than if not 13/
And finally, the promised FAQs... have been scrapped entirely 14/14
