#UK #DataProtection #Privacy #ICO #Google #GoogleChrome #WebCookies #PrivacySandbox: "The ICO has raised concerns with Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative, a set of proposed solutions to cookie deprecation designed to preserve advertising performance while improving user privacy. The ICO has pointed to a handful of possible vulnerabilities in the Sandbox’s tools that could be exploited to compromise user privacy and even potentially identify individual users who have opted out of being tracked across the web.
“We are disappointed that Google has changed its plans and no longer intends to deprecate third party cookies from the Chrome browser,” said Stephen Bonner, deputy commissioner at the ICO, in a statement shared with The Drum. “From the start of Google’s Sandbox project in 2019, it has been our view that blocking third-party cookies would be a positive step for consumers.”"
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2024/07/22/uk-data-privacy-regulators-disappointed-google-s-decision-keep-third-party-cookies