This is an important victory for the advertising ecosystem, which opposes the National Commission for Data Protection (Cnil) regarding the rules for collecting the consent of Internet users to the deposit of cookies, these small files which allow the tracking of Internet users during their visits. It should - except accident - be confirmed Wednesday June 17 by a final opinion of the Council of State. But already, on Friday, the public rapporteur for the highest administrative court placed a limit on the restrictive interpretation made by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) made by the data gendarme.
According to the CNIL, which presented its interpretation of the regulations in July 2019 and gave its first recommendations at the start of the year, the practice of blocking access to a website or a mobile application to a user who does not consent to be traced by cookies does not comply with the GDPR. The public rapporteur believes that
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