Who refused the cookies in the cookie jar?

The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) has sent new orders for cookie compliance to 30 additional companies, bringing the total to 90.

The sectors affected include: public institutions, higher education, clothing, transportation, retail and distance selling.

Some key issues:

  • automatic embedding of cookies before consent;
  • banners with no easy rejection option
  • cookies subject to consent still embedded after refusal expressed by the user.

Read more here.