{"id":6045,"date":"2022-06-18T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/18\/uk-plan-to-scrap-cookie-consent-boxes-will-make-it-easier-to-spy-on-web-users\/"},"modified":"2022-06-18T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T07:36:14","slug":"uk-plan-to-scrap-cookie-consent-boxes-will-make-it-easier-to-spy-on-web-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/18\/uk-plan-to-scrap-cookie-consent-boxes-will-make-it-easier-to-spy-on-web-users\/","title":{"rendered":"UK plan to scrap cookie consent boxes will make it \u2018easier to spy\u2019 on web users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy campaign group warns against government\u2019s proposals to move to an \u2018opt-out\u2019 model<\/p>\n<p>Proposals to scrap pop-up cookie consent boxes on websites will make it easier to spy on web users, a privacy campaign group has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Cookie banners are a common feature for web users, who are asked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/02\/techscape-google-chrome-cookies\">give their consent<\/a> for websites as well as marketing and advertising businesses to gather information about their browsing activity. Ministers announced proposals on Friday to move to an \u201copt-out\u201d model for cookie consent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jun\/17\/uk-plan-to-scrap-cookie-consent-boxes-will-make-it-easier-to-spy-on-web-users\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/17b057e2e61626f851d1e6ee6b2b8392a5ba07e7\/0_116_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9e3841a8aa29f830b4a5c7a70e5915a9\" title=\"UK plan to scrap cookie consent boxes will make it \u2018easier to spy\u2019 on web users\" \/>Privacy campaign group warns against government\u2019s proposals to move to an \u2018opt-out\u2019 model<br \/>\nProposals to scrap pop-up cookie consent boxes on websites will make it easier to spy on web users, a privacy campaign group has warned.<br \/>\nCookie banners are a common feature for web users, who are asked to give their consent for websites as well as marketing and advertising businesses to gather information about their browsing activity. Ministers announced proposals on Friday to move to an \u201copt-out\u201d model for cookie consent. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy campaign group warns against government\u2019s proposals to move to an \u2018opt-out\u2019 model Proposals to scrap pop-up cookie consent boxes on websites will make it easier to spy on web users, a privacy campaign group has warned. Cookie banners are a common feature for web users, who are asked to give their consent for websites &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/18\/uk-plan-to-scrap-cookie-consent-boxes-will-make-it-easier-to-spy-on-web-users\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK plan to scrap cookie consent boxes will make it \u2018easier to spy\u2019 on web users<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}