The Austrian online privacy NGO Noyb announced on Tuesday August 9 the filing of 226 new complaints against websites in Europe with rules on cookies deemed “misleading“, a year after a similar action.
“Today, Noyb filed 226 complaints with 18 authorities against websites that use the popular cookie banner software »OneTrust« with misleading settings“, said the organization in a press release. “Being online has become a frustrating experience“, in Europe, with “annoying barriers designed to make it extremely difficult to reject cookies anywhere on the Netadded the NGO.
400 complaints already filed
She claims that the option “Yes Noto cookies – computer trackers that allow targeted advertising – to be clearly offered to Internet users, as provided for in a European regulation that came into force in 2018. By August 2021, Noyb had already filed more than 400 complaints and the decisions have not yet been rendered, even ifmany sites have adapted their settings by adding dismiss buttonssince then, she said.
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“After a year, we come to hopeless cases that do not react to any solicitation“, lamented Max Schrems, the director of the NGO. “They must now be studied by the competent authorities“. Statistics published in 2021 show that 3% of users accept cookies, but that more than 90% of them are pushed to do so because they cannot easily reject them.
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