This Guidance is intended to help companies better understand the practice ofdark patterns and to implement the highlighted best practices to avoid them.
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Google to update cookie consent banner in Europe a few months after the CNIL fined Google €150 million for breaching French law.

This paper argues that traditional privacy law has a great deal to learn from the guidelines for informed consent that applies in federally funded biomedical and behavioral research.
All data collected through the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) must now be deleted.

The new study throws doubt on the claim that if a user says ‘no’ to tracking/behavioral ads via the IAB’s TCF, the adtech industry respectfully falls into line.

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has imposed an administrative fine of NOK 65 000 000 (€ 6.5 million) for not complying with the GDPR rules on consent.

Users will no longer be able to share private media, such as photos and videos, of another person without their permission, a move aimed at improving privacy and security.

Regulators have doubts that promises of consent-based data collection by digital publishers and advertisers is based on genuine user consent.

On average, 500,000 ad impressions served per day earlier this year contradicted the data-collection choices people made as required under Europe’s privacy law.

Facebook, Google and Netflix are facing fines and actions for privacy violations, with Facebook assessed the second-largest amount in the country’s history for its treatment of facial recognition templates.
