On March 6th 2020, we had the pleasure to be invited as speakers at the Open Belgium 2020 confaerence, a community driven conference about Open Data and Open Knowledge.

How would we feel if unknown merchants knew us by our name, kept a log of all our visits, trace of all our transactions and whatever information they could glean about us, all of this without telling? But isn’t this exactly what we allow for every company or organization on the internet when we blindly consent to cookies?