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# Europe’s crackdown on those annoying consent banners is a huge deal
- URL: https://werd.io/europes-crackdown-on-those-annoying-consent-banners-is-a-huge/
- Published: 2022-02-02T18:14:18.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-02T18:14:18.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“For one thing, \[...\] American lawmakers and regulators have often looked at the “consent spam” polluting Europe and pointed to it as one of the worst consequences of GDPR. This new decision \[...\] exposes that spam to be a violation of the law, not a fulfillment of it.”

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