The most visited websites do not comply correctly with privacy laws and actively track their users, finds Spanish study

Only a small percentage of the 500 most visited websites in Spain (which include everything from government sites to streaming and adult content platforms) correctly fulfill the requirements set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This is one of the main findings of a study involving researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the University of Girona and the Center for Cybersecurity Research of Catalonia (CYBERCAT).

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