A company cannot provide a pre-ticked checkbox on its website allowing cookies to be stored on a user's computer, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in a judgment delivered on Tuesday 1st October (Case C-673/17).
The German Federation of Consumer Organisations challenges the use by the German company Planet49 of a pre-ticked checkbox by which Internet users wishing to participate in online promotional games express their agreement to the storage of cookies.
Cookies are files...