The Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner of Malta published guidance on cookie consent requirements. The guidance lays out how cookies are handled in the ePrivacy Directive and the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and lists practices not compliant with data protection rules, such as cookie walls and pre-ticked boxes.
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