The "Accept all" button is often the standard for cookie banners. An administrative court has ruled that the opposite offer is also necessary.

The “Accept all” button is often the standard for cookie banners. An administrative court has ruled that the opposite offer is also necessary.

Lower Saxony’s data protection officer Denis Lehmkemper can report a legal victory in his long-standing battle against manipulatively designed cookie banners. The Hanover Administrative Court has confirmed his legal opinion in a judgment of March 19 that has only just been made public: Accordingly, website operators must offer a clearly visible “reject all” button on the first level of the corresponding banner for cookie consent requests if there is also the frequently found “accept all” option. Accordingly, cookie banners must not be specifically designed to encourage users to click on consent and must not prevent them from rejecting the controversial browser files.

  • Brandonazz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    I don’t remember there being CCTV everywhere in the wild west.

    Nobody is stopping anyone from requesting the information from users via, say, a form they fill out, or enabling data tracking for a specific user-enabled purpose. The only thing people are advocating against is users’ info being collected without their knowledge, consent, or both. Nobody is losing any freedom.

    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      03·
      4 hours ago

      the user is a piece is software, if the human decides to blindly trust it to execute arbitrary code (javascript) without reading it first they weren’t concerned with their privacy anyway. if they did read it then they had full knowledge of what was being collected.