Will Apple and Google adopt the GPC?

01/08/2021 | WIRED

Wired has written an article on the technology companies that have yet to adopt the Global Privacy Control under the CCPA after the California attorney general's recent decision to make the signal a valid method to conduct do-not-sell requests. While privacy browsers incorporated the GPC into their offerings, the signal has not been incorporated into browsers offered by Apple and Google. A Mozilla spokesperson said the company is "looking into the global privacy control and actively considering next steps in Firefox."

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