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UK: ICO threatens enforcement action against websites with ‘harmful’ cookie banners

Posted on August 10, 2023June 24, 2025 by Dissent

Richard Speed reports:

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has called for an end to website design practices that it claims could harm users.

The regulator has singled out cookie consent banners as an example of where it will take action if it believes that consumers are being affected by harmful design. It went on to state that it would take enforcement action where it felt design choices would leak to risk or harm.

Read more at ITPro.

See: ICO and CMA: Harmful online design encourages consumers to hand over personal information  and

See: It’s time to end damaging website design practices that may harm your users

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