Austrian NGO files 226 complaints related to “cookies”
The Noyb organization is attacking the rules deemed “misleading” concerning computer tracers that allow targeted .
“Being online has become a frustrating experience,” in Europe, with “inconvenient barriers designed to make rejecting cookies extremely difficult anywhere on the net,” says Noyb.
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The Austrian online privacy NGO Noyb announced on Tuesday the filing of 226 new complaints once morest websites in Europe with rules on cookies deemed “misleading”, a year following a similar action.
“Today, Noyb filed 226 complaints with 18 authorities once morest websites that use popular cookie banner software ‘OneTrust’ with misleading settings,” the organization said in a statement.
“Yes/no” to cookies
It demands that the “yes/no” option to cookies – computer tracers which allow targeted – be clearly offered to Internet users, as provided for by a European regulation which entered into force in 2018.
By August 2021, Noyb had already filed more than 400 complaints and decisions have yet to be made, although “many sites have adapted their settings by adding dismiss buttons” since then, she said.
“After a year, we come to hopeless cases that do not react to any request,” lamented Max Schrems, the director of the NGO. “They must now be studied by the competent authorities”.
Statistics published in 2021 show that 3% of users accept cookies, but that more than 90% of them are pushed to do so because they cannot easily reject them.
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