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The DPA has reviewed how the Dutch Public Broadcasting Service
("NPB") and an online advertising brokerage company have
been collecting personal data using tracking cookies. The DPA
concluded that both the NPB (source document in Dutch) and the advertising brokerage (source document in
Dutch) infringed the Dutch Data Protection Act, as neither asked
its website visitors for unequivocal consent. The DPA has yet to
decide on sanctions, if any.
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