The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) opposes ‘cookie walls’, the practice whereby a user can only access content if he or she has agreed to be tracked. In its new guidelines published on Wednesday 6 May, it also considers thatscrolling does not correspond to the notion of active consent provided for in the General Regulation.
These guidelines are an update of the document adopted by the Article 29 Working Party (the predecessor of the EDPB) in April 2018, a few weeks before the...