'No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
You can’t make access to your website’s content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’. Not if you need to be compliant with European data protection law.
That’s the unambiguous message from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which has published updated guidelines on the rules around online consent to process people’s data.
Under pan-EU law, consent is one of six lawful bases that data controllers can use when processing people’s personal data.'
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