Garante investigates use of cookie walls

The Garante notes that the European legislation on the protection of personal data does not in principle preclude the owner of a site from making access to content by users subject to their consent for profiling purposes (through cookies or other tracking tools) or, alternatively, to the payment of a sum of money. This is in reference to the initiatives taken in recent days by several online newspapers, websites and companies operating on the Internet.

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