News · noyb - European Center for Digital Rights EN LLM context A cited markdown file you can paste into your AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, a RAG or project knowledge base) to ground it in this document. Contains: this document’s text, its sections with their topics, and the full text of every law provision it applies. Everything links back to its source on overview.legal — legal information, not advice.

News Sites: Readers need to "buy back" their own data at an exorbitant price?!

Consent Monitoring
Aug 13, 2021 Source

How it connects

Related across sources

Enforcement AEPD (Spain) - PS/00249/2025 AEPD (Spain) Case Law Council of State upholds €600,000 DPA fine against Enschede for Wi-Fi tracking Council of State Case Law TSJ PV: Accidental Teams recordings after meetings ended cannot justify trust-based High Court of Justice of the Basque Country Enforcement Italian Garante sanctions Calabrian agency for location tracking of remote workers Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Case Law CJEU - C-673/17 - Planet49 GDPRhub Enforcement AEPD investigates University of Navarra over student COVID-19 vaccination status requests AEPD (Spain)

Full text

Cookie Banners News Sites: Readers need to "buy back" their own data at an exorbitant price Today, noyb filed complaints against the cookie paywalls of seven major German and Austrian news websites: SPIEGEL.de, Zeit.de, heise.de, FAZ.net, derStandard.at, krone.at and t-online.de. An increasing amount of websites asks their users to either agree to data being passed on to hundreds of tracking companies (which generates a few cents of revenue for the website) or take out a subscription (for up to € 80 per year). Can consent be considered “freely given” if the alternative is to pay 10, 20 or 100 times the market price of your data to keep it to yourself? Personalized advertisement necessary for survival? Media outlets are financed by advertisements, subscriptions, subsidies or donations. Online, too, a large part of advertising is not personalized, just like with ads in print media, radio or television. While media companies make good money with directly booked and mostly non-personalized

Original document at the source noyb.eu

Similar Content