On 16 September 2024, the UK’s data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), issued a reprimand against Sky Betting and Gaming (SkyBet) for unlawfully processing people’s data through advertising cookies without their consent.
Between 10 January and 3 March 2023, SkyBet’s website dropped third-party AdTech cookies to visitors’ browsers before
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The European Data Protection Board has published new guidelines (14 November 2023) on the scope of Article 5(3) of the e-Privacy Directive – i.e., the so-called ‘cookie rule’.
These guidelines apply a maximalist interpretation to the cookie rule, meaning that a wide variety of technologies other than traditional cookies are, in the opinion of the
Continue Reading EU: New EDPB guidelines on the scope of the ‘cookie rule’On 31 December 2021, the restricted committee of the French Data Protection Supervisory Authority (“CNIL”) (i) fined Facebook Ireland 60 million euros and Google a total of 150 million euros (i.e., 90 million euros for Google LLC and 60 million euros for Google Ireland Limited) for failing to allow the users of facebook.com, google.fr and
Continue Reading FRANCE: Cookies – new record sanctions for tech giants – CNIL fines Facebook Ireland 60 million euros and Google 150 million euros.
