TTDPA fuels cookie dispute

Actually, the new TTDPA was supposed to lead to more legal certainty, but now the dispute about cookies is really getting started: Consumer protectionists are suing German publishers, and Google continues to work on the abolition of cookies.

On December 1st, the new Federal Act on the Regulation of Data Protection and Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (TTDPA) came into force. The Act fully transposes the ePrivacy Directive into German law for the first time. Although data protection authorities have been referring directly to the European template for years, the new regulations require some adaptation on the part of companies.

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