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Auction of Personal Data: Clarification of the Concepts of Personal Data and Data Controller

BCLP on 5/31/2024

On 7 March 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a ruling (C-604/22 | IAB Europe) clarifying the concepts of personal data and controller in the context of the use of a Transparency and Consent Framework...more

GDPR, Cookies, and the Ever-Filling Jar of European Data Protection

K&L Gates LLP on 1/28/2022

European regulators unofficially announced the major theme of this new year, through the release of several decisions pertaining to cookies and other tracking technologies in the first 10 days of 2022. As the General Data...more

Datenschutzorganisation startet Kampagne gegen Webseiten-Betreiber in der EU auf Basis eigener Interpretation der Regeln für...

Latham & Watkins LLP on 6/10/2021

Die Datenschutzorganisation noyb droht mit über 10.000 Beschwerden wegen möglicher rechtswidriger Verwendung von Cookies. Am 31. Mai 2021 startete die Datenschutzorganisation noyb (die Abkürzung steht für „none of your...more

The end of dark patterns in “cookie walls”: German court bans deceptive designs

Spirit Legal on 1/21/2021

Website operators are not permitted to use cookies and similar tracking technologies for analysis and marketing purposes without the informed consent of users, if this involves sharing personal data with third parties and...more

GDPR Privacy FAQs: Do cookie banners that disclose the use of analytics or behavioral advertising cookies, and state that...

BCLP on 8/2/2019

Probably not. A data subject’s consent to the use of analytics or behavioural cookies must be a valid “affirmative act.” While it may be argued that the data subject is indeed performing an “affirmative act” by continuing...more

GDPR Privacy FAQs: Do European privacy laws require a cookie banner when a company uses first-party session cookies?

BCLP on 7/24/2019

Probably not. A cookie can qualify as “personal data” under GDPR when it can be linked to an individual person. Even in instances where a cookie cannot be linked, it is still governed by the ePrivacy Directive and...more

Cookie Audit from Bavarian Data Protection Authority May Serve As GDPR Warning

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/8/2019

Following numerous privacy complaints, the State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA) recently conducted a random audit on 40 companies and found widespread problems with their cookie disclosures....more

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