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CNIL's prohibition of cookie walls deemed illegal by France's highest administrative court

( June 19, 2020, 14:04 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The French Council of State has said that the CNIL, the country's data-protection authority, cannot legally prohibit cookie walls — the practice of websites of preventing access to their sites unless users accept cookies. The country's highest administrative court said that the CNIL can't infer a prohibition of cookie walls from the requirement in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation that websites must obtain users' freely given consent for cookies. The CNIL has thus exceeded what it can do under "flexible law." Without ruling on the substance of the question, the Council of State considered that the CNIL could not, under the cover of an act of flexible law, enact such a general and absolute prohibition. The Council of State approved the other aspects of the CNIL's cookie guidelines.Press release in French below and decision is attached:...

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