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  • Cookie consent is a box-ticking exercise after all!

    16 October 2019

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has provided welcome clarity on the consent requirements around the use of cookies by website operators. As if it were ever in doubt, pre-ticked boxes cannot be used as a means of obtaining a website user’s consent to the use of cookies.

  • ICO: Update Report into Ad Tech and RTB

    17 September 2019

    On 20 June 2019 the UK’s data protection regulator issued a progress report setting out her initial concerns about the use of personal data in the ad tech sector – which she describes as “immature in its understanding of data protection requirements” – in particular when it comes to real time bidding (RTB).

  • ICO: Updated guidance on the use of cookies and similar technologies

    17 September 2019

    On 3 July 2019 the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued updated guidance on the use of cookies (and similar technologies), in which it has set out its interpretation of the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the cookie rules contained in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).

  • The Law, the ‘Outlaws’ and Ad Tech’s O.K. Corral

    26 June 2019

    Programmatic advertising is often likened by commentators to the Wild West: some because they consider it to be a lawless place where anything goes; others because it pushes boundaries and is creating a new frontier. Wherever you stand on that metaphor, ad tech is looking like it’s about to have its own ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral’ moment – a shootout in the EU prompted by a long-simmering feud between privacy’s ‘lawmen’ and the advertising industry’s ‘outlaws’ finally boiling over.

  • A Trailer for GDPR Season 2: Creating a ‘Culture of Accountability’

    19 June 2019

    In our previous article*, we looked at some key scenes from the first season of the GDPR. This next part takes a peak at what’s likely to be the main plot for season 2 (spoiler alert).

  • GDPR Season 1: Off to a Slow Start?

    30 May 2019

    Like winter in the popular HBO series Game of Thrones, privacy professionals warned that ‘GDPR is coming’ many months, years even, before the army of supervisory authorities (SAs) and data subjects started to amass on their doorsteps. For the most part, the warning fell on deaf ears. It was only when the first snows had already started to fall, signalling the imminent arrival of winter, that GDPR preparations began in earnest – with panic soon turning into hysteria, for some.

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