Google and Facebook make it too harder to reject cookies
If you ever feel like websites have turned the simple business of rejecting tracking cookies into a labyrinthine task that involves close-reading of multiple dialog boxes, then France’s data protection agency has your back. The watchdog has
for making it too confusing for users to reject cookies. The companies now have three months to change their ways in France.that in order to refuse cookies, French users first have to click on a button labelled “cookies” . Such labelling “necessarily generates confusion,” says CNIL, leading users to believe they have no choice in the matter.that the company’s websites allow users to accept all cookies with a single click.
For anyone particularly interested in the details of European internet regulation , the case is also interesting in that CNIL is acting under the authority of a bit of EU legislation known as the ePrivacy Directive, rather than the more recently-introduced General Data Protection Regulation .
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