A new decision by the United Kingdom’s high court says that even if you have cookie and marketing consent mechanisms that are sufficient for valid consent under privacy laws for
Continue Reading Valid Consent: General Public vs. Gamblers
The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés in France recently took action against misleading cookie banners as subverting true consent.
This is not a new issue, though, with the
New lawsuits that were recently filed in California echo some of the “cookie” conversations my colleagues and I have been having with online merchants and retail clients.
The fact patterns
Continue Reading Cookies and Online Merchants: What Can We Learn From California Lawsuits
Why is the new noyb action against websites and data brokers regarding cookie-based authentication important for compliance with the new U.S. privacy laws?
Because they set out to equivocally confirm
Continue Reading To Best Comply With US Privacy Laws, It Can Be Helpful to Look to Europe
The German Data Protection Conference (DSK) issued guidance on the Federal Act on the Regulation of Data Protection and Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (‘TTDSG’), which went into effect on
Continue Reading No Cookies for You: DSK TTDSG Guidelines Impose Strict Limitations
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
Continue Reading CNIL: Refusing Cookies Should Be as Easy as Accepting Them
While presenting this week at the DRI Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Virtual Seminar, I outlined many of the issues currently impacting data security around the world.
Here are some key
Continue Reading Cookies Are a Thing And Other Stuff You Need to Know About Data Security
The development of alternative techniques to “third-party” cookies cannot be done at the expense of the right of individuals to protect their personal data and privacy, according to France’s Commission
Continue Reading The ‘Morning After’ Third Party Cookies
I spoke this week on Usercentrics’ Tech That Talks program, taking look at personalized ad targeting and the future of cookies.
Among the issues we discussed:
Continue Reading A Look at Personalized Ad Targeting and the Future of Cookies
C is for ‘cookie,’ and that’s not good enough for me.
NOYB, the privacy organization based in Vienna, Austria, is moving on hundreds of companies who use unlawful cookie banners.
Continue Reading NOYB Issues More Than 500 GDPR Complaints, Aiming to End ‘Cookie Banner Terror’