Professor Barry O'Sullivan:

There is an exemption for that in any case in the GDPR, so I cannot get that straight. It would be very interesting to hear what that is. On privacy by default, basically if one buys a new smartphone - I can see two nice new smartphones in front of me that have been bought recently - one will find that lots of things are turned on, by default such as frequent locations, geo-tagging of photographs and location services. Rather than turning them on, they should simply be turned off. One should actively turn them on if one wants them, rather than having something that follows one around all of the time, which is what the device does.