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"We recognize the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal broadcast from certain web browsers as an opt-out request, but we don't recognize the "do not track" signal because there isn't a universal standard for how to apply it.Excerpt from T-Mobile's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “We recognize the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal broadcast from certain web browsers as an opt-out request, but we don't recognize the "do not track" signal because there isn't a universal standard for how to apply it.”
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