Study shows EU privacy rules are being undermined by cookie consent tools

10/01/2020 | TechCrunch

Is anybody surprised?

The new research paper “Dark Patterns after the GDPR: Scraping Consent Pop-ups and Demonstrating their Influence” reveals that most cookie consent pop-ups European users see are unlikely to be compliant with EU privacy laws. View the Cornell University post, access the full report.

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