French court cancels CNIL guidelines provision on cookie walls

19/06/2020 | France Conseil d’État

The Conseil d’État, France's Council of State, has ordered the CNIL, to cancel parts of its guidelines on cookies. The court explained the CNIL's ban on cookies walls was not valid because it "exceeded what it could legally do in the context of an act known as flexible law." (Original post is in French. Some browsers will translate automatically.)

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