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Change default cookie consent policy from "Accept All" to "Accept Essential"

Submitted on Wednesday 20th July 2022

Rejected on Monday 25th July 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change default cookie consent policy from "Accept All" to "Accept Essential"

Petition Details

Cookies are everywhere and companies benefit from unknowing/lazy users who accept the default setting to quickly access a website. It cannot be this easy these days to gather such valuable information and we need to stand up to CHANGE ALL BUT ESSENTIAL COOKIES TO BE AN OPT IN POLICY.

Additional Information

Make it harder for websites to collect personal information from users. All Non-Essential cookies should REQUIRE CONSENT, where consent means an active choice on the part of the user: so opt-in, not opt-out.
"Legitimate Interest" should fall under the category of non-essential and hence should also be opt-in and disabled by default, allowing users to click "Accept Essential", excluding legitimate interest, by having the default changed (most websites still have legitimate interested enabled)


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

While we can see that you'd like changes to how cookie banners operate, it's not clear exactly what you'd like the Government to do. There is currently no default cookie consent policy that has been specified by the Government.

You could start a petition asking the Government to remove the requirement for explicit consent for non-essential cookies.

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