Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sean Gladwell) French regulators today ordered Google and Facebook in order to make rejecting cookies as simple as accepting them and fined the companies a total of €210 million for failing to be able to comply with France’s Data Protection Act. The CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés) […]
Enlarge / This menacing firefox seems to be on the prowl for unwanted third-party cookies. (credit: Hung Chung Chih via Getty Images) Mozilla’s Firefox 91, released this morning, includes a new privacy management feature called Enhanced Cookie Clearing. The new feature allows users to manage all cookies and locally stored data generated by a particular […]
Cookieyes.com—a site devoted to providing GDPR/CCPA consent solutions—unsurprisingly has an excellent, minimally-invasive cookie banner. [credit: Jim Salter ] The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), passed in 2018, requires websites to ask visitors for consent prior to placing cookies. As any Internet user is now aware, this means an extra step required when visiting […]
Google has a habit of inviting regulatory scrutiny on both privacy and antitrust fronts, so why not both at once? On Friday, the U.K.’s competition watchdog opened a formal investigation into Google over supposedly pro-privacy changes the company is making to its market-leading Chrome browser. The government group said it will review whether the proposed […]
One of the best parts of the holidays are THE TREATS! Cinnamon, sugar, and chocolate chips dance on our palettes. Ginger, molasses, and mint capture the cozy season! Yummy, yummy in our tummies! And Santa’s too — he’s a BIG fan of a BIG plate full of cookies! Take our quiz (below) to find out […]
Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. Last month the group in GitHub, the program code-sharing site, revealed its chief executive order, Nat Friedman, a few fresh layout strategies. They’re so all those bothersome electronic pop-ups that ask people to take that the use of”cookies,” a pervading monitoring […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Google and Amazon have both been hit with substantial fines from the French data-protection regulator, CNIL, for invading users’ privacy. On Thursday, the watchdog fined Google €100 million ($121 million)—double the penalty it levied on […]