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21 July 2020 - Laurie-Anne Ancenys

The Conseil d’Etat, the French Administrative Supreme Court, (the Council) partially annuls the CNIL’s cookies guidelines, on aspects related to cookie walls, for lack of competence. The background to this decision are guidelines on cookies and other tracking devices, issued by the French supervisory authority (the CNIL), on 4 July 2019. The purpose of these › Read More

04 October 2019 - Catherine di Lorenzo

On 1 October 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its long-awaited decision in the case Planet49 (Case C 673/17). The decision clarifies the requirements for valid cookie consent under Directive 2002/58 (ePrivacy Directive). In particular, the CJEU rejects pre-ticked boxes as a means of providing valid consent to the use › Read More

04 July 2019 - cookies , ICO Nigel Parker

Recent changes to the cookie consent tool on www.ico.org.uk were a good sign that updated guidance from the ICO, on the use of cookies and similar technologies, would soon arrive. The ICO duly published its updated guidance on 3 July. In the run up to GDPR, and since, many companies have adopted enhanced cookie consent tools › Read More

20 December 2016 - Charlotte Mullarkey

As anticipated, a draft of the proposed replacement EU ePrivacy law has been leaked. While this draft still appears to be under review, it does provide an interesting indication of what we are likely to see in the proposed legislation next month. Given the extent of discussion around this revision, and the attention given to › Read More