My cartoon about cookies. Privacy law has waged war against the cookie, resulting in endless cookie banners which make a mockery of privacy. Many are dark patterns. Few achieve any purpose other than to annoy users.
For more on my views about how privacy consent is broken, see my article, Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law, 104 B.U. L. Rev. 593 (2024).
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Professor Daniel J. Solove is a law professor at George Washington University Law School. Through his company, TeachPrivacy, he has created the largest library of computer-based privacy and data security training, with more than 180 courses.
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