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Biggest UK websites get cookie compliance reminder from privacy watchdog

By Frank Hersey ( March 12, 2025, 14:50 GMT | Insight) -- The UK’s most-used 1,000 websites have been reminded that they must comply with data protection law on cookies and user tracking by the end of this year or face enforcement. In a wide-ranging conference speech, Information Commissioner John Edwards also called the friction involved in international data transfers a “bane on our world” and a "tax on data" and hopes for international agreements on principles and creation of low-cost transfer mechanisms.The UK’s most-used 1,000 websites have been reminded that they must comply with data protection law on cookies and user tracking by the end of this year or face enforcement....

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