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Op-Ed: Maybe no consent needed for advertising under ePrivacy “cookie” rule?
Reading through the CNIL’s new decision against Yahoo on cookies brings back to mind a question that has stuck with me for well over a decade: what is the exact reasoning that has led many EU-based authorities to say that advertising cookies/etc. are not strictly necessary for the provision of a service, and why does
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EDPB seeks to redefine ePrivacy – Part II: Overbroad notions and regulator activism?
Last week, I questioned the European Data Protection Board’s very authority to adopt its newly published Guidelines 2/2023 on Technical Scope of Art. 5(3) of ePrivacy Directive (i.e. the so-called “cookie” rule), guidelines according to which those rules should also apply to a broad range of other technologies and information, such as IP addresses, pixels
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EDPB seeks to redefine ePrivacy – Part I: By what authority?
“They will cover many scenarios”, said an EDPB member informally a couple of days ago, talking about what would become the EDPB’s new Guidelines 2/2023 on Technical Scope of Art. 5(3) of ePrivacy Directive (subject to a public consultation – more on that later). After having gone through them in detail, I cannot help but
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Op-ed: “Pay or data” has its reasons – even if you disagree
“Pay or data” and cookie walls are clearly controversial topics, but I feel something needs to be said regarding their justification – else LinkedIn and the broader web may seem to be a very anti-business environment from a data protection perspective, based on various posts and articles I have seen in recent months. Running a