: Has the EU sued any site(s) yet for not complying with their cookie "law"? EUROPA websites must follow the Commission's guidelines on privacy and data protection and inform users that cookies

EUROPA websites must follow the Commission's guidelines on privacy and data protection and inform users that cookies are not being used to gather information unnecessarily. - source

Many people find this EU cookie directive, when implemented, a broken toy law and a waste of time for all parties involved and because of that don't implement it.

4+ years further, have any of the bodies in the EU sued or attempted to sue any site(s) for not displaying a notice that cookies were in use?

It seems the EU got really quiet about it after the firestorm meteor shower of OP resentment hailed down uponith them and I would love to know how far they actually took it.

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The first fines specifically for cookie law compliance failures have been handed out by the Spanish Data Protection Authority. They were given to two companies running a number of jewellery websites, one of which was an online store.

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