The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has brought significant changes to how companies handle personal data—and cookies are easily one of the largest sources of personal information for ...

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 ...

It seems that a fairly severe, sweeping data privacy law in Europe could be just the incentive news organizations needed to trim the number of third-party cookies and content loading on their sites ...

Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced strict rules for gaining the explicit consent of users when companies collect and process users' personal data. But most of the online ...

Just over a year after launching a major project targeting thousands of sites blatantly flouting cookie tracking rules in Europe, regional privacy campaign group noyb has fired off another batch of ...

The European Commission has proposed a “Digital Omnibus” package that would relax parts of the GDPR, the AI Act, and Europe’s cookie rules in the name of competitiveness and simplification. If you ...

New tool scans websites in a clean browser session, flagging non-essential cookies that fire without consent and ...

New research into how European consumers interact with the cookie consent mechanisms which have proliferated since a major update to the bloc’s online privacy rules last year casts an unflattering ...

Critical security issues caused by improper access controls in a WordPress plugin designed for GDPR cookie compliance have been resolved, but hundreds of thousands of websites may still be vulnerable ...

The introduction of the GDPR and subsequent privacy laws worldwide put website owners in a tough spot. The new regulations put forth complex legal requirements for data collection and processing that ...