Advocacy group NOYB filed a lawsuit against Hamburg’s Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information over a ruling that allowed pay-or-consent cookie banners on a magazine’s website, Euractiv reports. The HmbBfDI received a complaint in 2021 after an individual was confronted with a choice to either receive personalized advertising or purchase a subscription on the German news website Der Spiegel. NOYB alleged the regulator was simultaneously offering the magazine legal advice during the investigation into the practice.
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