Press Room

More and more online newspapers (but not only) are using some paid formulas for users to take advantage of certain content through the Paywall service. In this regard, the Italian Data Protection Authority presented its 2022 Annual Activity Report, also mentioning the recent trend of making access to web content conditional on accepting all cookies or, alternatively, paying a price.

"A further critical issue in platform capitalism concerns the trend toward remuneration for consent to the processing of personal data, taken as part of an exchange between data and services." On July 6, 2023, the President of the Data Protection Authority presented the 2022 Annual Activity Report and thus introduced one of the themes contained therein.