Under the ePrivacy Directive, in conjunction with the GDPR, the use of nonessential cookies (e.g., advertising and analytics) requires an affirmative, opt-in consent ...

Life online is rife with interruptions: Ads, auto-playing videos, paywalls (sorry!), requests to enable browser notifications, chat bubbles, extraneous toolbars, and interstitials all muddy the ...

The case relates to an online lottery organised by Planet49 GmbH (Planet49). Prior to participating in the lottery, users had to enter their name and address and were shown two checkboxes before they ...

Europe’s highest court, the CJEU, has ruled that pre-checked cookie consent boxes do not provide the necessary legal consent needed for websites — TechCrunch reports. Basically, when you open a new ...

The privacy campaigning group Open Rights Group (ORG) has warned that the UK government’s proposal to move to an ‘opt out’ model with regards to pop-up cookie consent boxes on websites will make it ...

It has to rank as one of the most bizarre cases to go in front of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), but at the end of last week, an announcement was made. The incredibly obvious point ...

Privacy and free speech advocate Open Rights Group (ORG) has conducted an in-depth analysis of the United Kingdom's recent plans to rid websites of the all-too ...

Cookie pop-ups getting you down? Complaints that the web is “unusable” in Europe because of frustrating and confusing “data choice” notifications that get in the way of what you’re trying to do online ...

Websites would need to obtain active and specific consent from users before storing cookies on their device, the ECJ has ruled. The case started with a lottery website checking the consent box on ...

Europe’s top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid. Consent must be obtained prior to storing or accessing non-essential cookies, such as tracking ...