{"id":2232,"date":"2025-01-21T17:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2025-01-21T17:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:41:38","slug":"cnil-targets-manipulative-cookie-banners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2232","title":{"rendered":"CNIL Targets Manipulative Cookie Banners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>The French data protection authority CNIL (Commission Nationale de l&#8217;Informatique et des Libert\u00e9s) recently took a stand against manipulative cookie consent practices known as dark patterns. These practices are used by some publishers to nudge users into accepting cookies.<br><br>The CNIL discovered several non-compliant practices, including:&nbsp;The reject option is presented<strong>&nbsp;in the form of a clickable link<\/strong>&nbsp;whose choice of color, font size, and font style disproportionately emphasizes the acceptance option over the reject option;the&nbsp;<strong>location of the reject&nbsp;option<\/strong>&nbsp;is so embedded in the information that it is not readily apparent;the reject option is placed next to other paragraphs without sufficient spacing to&nbsp;<strong>visually distinguish<\/strong>&nbsp;it from all other information;the accept option is presented&nbsp;<strong>multiple times<\/strong>&nbsp;in the banner, while the&nbsp;<strong>reject<\/strong>option is presented&nbsp;<strong>only once<\/strong>&nbsp;and in non-explicit terms (&#8222;I decline non-essential purposes&#8220;).Such practices violate both the French Data Protection Act and the GDPR. This crackdown highlights the importance of transparent and fair consent practices. Website publishers must prioritize user rights and ensure clear, straightforward choices for consent.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French data protection authority CNIL (Commission Nationale de l&#8217;Informatique et des Libert\u00e9s) recently took a stand against manipulative cookie consent practices<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2232\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}