- Volume 5 (2019), Issue 3
- Vol. 5 (2019), No. 3
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- Pages 434 - 437
- pp. 434 - 437
Advocate General Opinion on the Planet49 Case: Some Clarifications on the Consent Requirements with Regard to Cookies
Case C-673/17 Planet49 GmbH v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V., Opinion of Advocate General Szpunar of 21 March 2019
The Advocate General's opinion provides some clarifications applicable to cookie rules, in particular: the notion of consent under the EU data protection and privacy legal framework, the scope of the ePrivacy Directive and the information to be provided to the data subject to obtain an informed consent.