‘Cookie Walls’ Outlawed By Dutch Privacy Officials

Wendy Davis reports:

Take-it-or-leave-it privacy policies that require people to accept tracking cookies in order to access a website are illegal, Dutch regulators said this week.

“Thorough monitoring and analysis of the behavior of website visitors and the sharing of this information with other parties is only allowed with permission. That permission must be completely free,” the Dutch Data Protection Authority said Thursday, according to a Google translation of the decision.

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