Senate approves stripped cookie law
The Senate has approved a stripped-down, relaxed version of the cookie law. It is therefore final. It is still unknown when the new version of the cookie law, in which consent is not required for analytical cookies, will come into effect.
The House of Representatives already approved the relaxed legislation in October, but the Senate also approved the amendment on Tuesday. It is not yet known when websites no longer need to request permission for analytical cookies.
The exception applies to cookies that do not infringe privacy, such as cookies used for a/b testing and cookies from statistics software. For essential cookies, which contain login data, for example, you never had to ask for permission.
Last year, the government decided that websites do not need explicit permission to place cookies. If a user ignores a cookie warning and continues surfing, websites may assume that the user gives permission, the government argues. However, websites may not place the disputed cookies until a user has clicked through a number of times on the website; many websites ignore that.