A new academic study has placed gambling websites under renewed privacy scrutiny after researchers examined how UK-licensed operators use cookie consent banners and tracking technologies. The research assessed 624 gambling websites and found widespread problems involving consent mechanisms, data processing and interface design. The findings should not be interpreted as a regulatory ruling against every operator named in the research. Rather, they represent the results of an academic audit that identified practices the researchers regarded as inconsistent with applicable data protection requirements....
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