I looked at 50 well-known websites and most are gathering our data illegally
- Written by Asress Adimi Gikay, Lecturer in AI, Disruptive Innovation and Law, Brunel University London

The owners of Google and Facebook were both heavily fined for using cookies illegally at the tail end of 2021 by the French data protection authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Liberté (CNIL). On the French versions of Google, its sister platform YouTube, and Facebook,...