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Max Schrems’ noyb Files 226 Fresh Cookie Banner GDPR Complaints

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Online privacy activist group noyb (none of your business), founded by well known campaigner Max Schrems, has filed 226 fresh complaints against websites which it claims are using “deceptive cookie banners”, and not complying with requirements outlined in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Make Way for Interest-Based Targeting

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The challenge With Apple's iOS 14 update, GDPR and Google phasing out third-party cookies next year, the online landscape is shifting toward more consumer-friendly tracking options. This also means new challenges for the advertising industry.

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MarTech’s guide to GDPR: The General Data Protection Regulation

Martech

GDPR would eliminate the need for individual countries to write their own regulations — as well as requiring any company, regardless of location, that markets goods or services to EU residents to comply with the law. This will support a smooth functioning of the GDPR cooperation and dispute resolution mechanisms,” the Commission noted.

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Google’s cookie deprecation: An essential marketing playbook for the post-cookie era

Martech

Google’s full deprecation of third-party cookies is right around the corner. By now, you’ve likely started testing alternative identifiers to prepare for a future without third-party cookies. Time is running out to get all those well-laid marketing plans off the whiteboards and into action.

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Mixed reactions from ad ecosystem to Google keeping cookies

Martech

After years of back and forth between Google and regulatory bodies, the news finally came that Google is scrapping plans to kill third-party cookies in Chrome. By delaying the depreciation of cookies, Google buys itself time to either refine the Privacy Sandbox or to make its implications less transparent.

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Hold-outs targeted in fresh batch of noyb GDPR cookie consent complaints

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As with earlier actions by noyb , all the complaints relate to the most widely used cookie banner software, made by OneTrust. Noyb says the latest batch of 226 complaints have been lodged with 18 data protection authorities (DPAs) around the bloc. After one year, we got to the hopeless cases that hardly react to any invitation or guidance.

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3 future-proofing strategies for Google’s third-party cookie crackdown

Martech

After four years of anticipation, Google officially began restricting third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users (about 30 million people) this January. This move lays the groundwork for a broader third-party cookie phaseout in the second half of 2024.

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