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Cookies on the Internet: An NGO files 226 complaints against websites and their rules deemed "misleading".
The NGO Noyb has already filed more than 400 complaints in August 2021 but the decisions have not yet been rendered.
She has already carried out a similar action a year ago. The Austrian online privacy NGO Noyb announced on Tuesday the filing of 226 new complaints against websites in Europe. At issue: their rules regarding cookies, These computer trackers that allow targeted advertising.
Austrian online privacy NGO Noyb
The complaints were filed "with 18 authorities" and are aimed at "websites that use the popular cookie banner software "OneTrust" with misleading settings," the organization said in a statement.
"Being online has become a frustrating experience", in Europe, with "annoying barriers designed to make the rejection of cookies extremely complicated everywhere on the Net", added the NGO. It thus demands that the "yes / no" option to cookies be clearly offered to Internet users, as provided for by a European regulation that came into force in 2018.
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As of August 2021, Noyb had already filed more than 400 complaints and the decisions have not yet been rendered, although "many sites have adapted their settings by adding reject buttons" since then, she said. "After a year, we come to the desperate cases that do not respond to any solicitation," lamented Max Schrems, the director of the NGO. "They must now be studied by the competent authorities".
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This figure largely fell back in the two hours that followed. Reports continued to arrive, in fewer numbers, for Google Cloud (remote computing) and Google Calendar, in particular.
