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Thousands of businesses are being sued despite their own cookie banners

Thousands of businesses are being sued despite their own cookie banners
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A California law written in 1967 to stop wiretapping on telephone lines has become the basis for thousands of lawsuits arguing that everyday website tools, chat widgets, tracking pixels and analytics scripts amount to illegal interception of a visitor’s communications. The suits aren’t limited to...

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