{"id":10724,"date":"2022-01-08T10:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T10:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2022-01-11T08:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T08:48:53","slug":"indigestible-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10724","title":{"rendered":"Indigestible cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In France the Commission Nationale de l&#8217;Informatique et des Libert\u00e9s (CNIL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnil.fr\/en\/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-million-euros-and-facebook-60-million-euros-non-compliance\">has fined<\/a> Google \u20ac150 million and Facebook \u20ac60 mn. for non-compliance with French data protection legislation, which also covers cookies.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/320px-Cookie_stack-e1641638744469.jpg\" alt=\"cookies - edible variety\" width=\"119\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10746\" \/>As a result of its investigations following the receipt of complaints from members of the public, the CNIL found that the websites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com do not make refusing cookies as easy as to accept them and so penalised them financially. The \u20ac150 mn. fine for Google is broken down into \u20ac90 mn. for Google LLC and \u20ac60 mn. for Google Ireland Ltd.<\/p>\r\n<p>Furthermore, the CNIL also ordered Google and Facebook to provide French-based internet users lwith a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them, in order to guarantee their freedom of consent, within three months. If they fail to do so, the companies will have to pay a penalty of \u20ac100,000 euros per day of delay.<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/sanction-facebook-google-en-600x368.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/sanction-facebook-google-en-600x368.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/sanction-facebook-google-en-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/sanction-facebook-google-en-768x471.png 768w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/sanction-facebook-google-en.png 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n<p>The problem of privacy-conscious people being put to unnecessary effort to reject cookies is widespread. For instance, when visiting a Reach plc newspaper site (<em>Reach owns the Mirror, Express and scores of regional news titles around the country. Ed.<\/em>), users who wish to reject all cookies have to work through the options; this entails four clicks of the mouse, as opposed to one to accept all cookies. The best sites have a one-click option to accept or reject all cookies.<\/p> \r\n<p>As someone who has been using the internet since the days of dial-up modems, your &#8216;umble scribe has long believed rejecting cookies should be the default and those who want to accept them made to go through the same laborious process to which cookie refuseniks are currently subjected.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In France the Commission Nationale de l&#8217;Informatique et des Libert\u00e9s (CNIL) has fined Google \u20ac150 million and Facebook \u20ac60 mn. for non-compliance with French data protection legislation, which also covers cookies. As a result of its investigations following the receipt of complaints from members of the public, the CNIL found that the websites facebook.com, google.fr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9],"tags":[44,23],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-tech","tag-privacy","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10758,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}