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		88 on Jan 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-comp... My understanding is EU member states have some freedom to implement the “cookie law” (ePrivacy Directive) in different ways, and this deadline is linked to some updates to the legislation in France which took effect from Oct 2020.

Nextgrid on Jan 6, 2022 [–]

But this is (also?) in breach of the GDPR which was supposed to go into effect in 2018.

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