( December 10, 2019, 11:02 GMT | Official Statement) -- French websites Allociné, Cdiscount.com and Vanity Fair are facing complaints there for allegedly breaching provisions on online tracking cookies under the General Data Protection Regulation. Noyb, a Vienna-based privacy activist group led by Max Schrems, today complained to CNIL, the French data-protection regulator, saying the websites turn a rejection of cookies by users into a "fake consent" for their online-browsing habits to be tracked. The result is that major online advertising companies such as Facebook, AppNexus and PubMatic can target users online unlawfully, Noyb said. "It is outrageous that webpages simply replace a ‘no’ with a ‘yes’ to be able to sell our data," Noyb's lawyer Gaëtan Goldberg said. Later on, he added: “We filed three complaints against six companies in total this morning: one against CDiscount and Facebook, a second one against Webedia (as a publisher of Allocine.fr) and AppNexus and a third one against Conde Nast (as a publisher of VanityFair.fr) and PubMatic.”...
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