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Cookies—or rather, certain categories of cookies—allow web providers to track users and thus pose obvious data protection issues. The traditional regulatory approach gives the data subject the option to refuse cookies by denying consent, while a recently emerging technological trend considers this approach to be ineffective and seeks to prevent websites from installing cookies by default.
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Garofalo, A.M. (2022). Cookies and the Passive Role of the Data Subject. In: Senigaglia, R., Irti, C., Bernes, A. (eds) Privacy and Data Protection in Software Services. Services and Business Process Reengineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3049-1_7
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