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62.1% of the EU's top 500 websites per country displayed a cookie consent banner shortly after GDPR took effect in May 2018, up from 46.1% five months earlier, according to Ruhr-Universitat Bochum's NDSS 2019 study of 6,759 sites. See the country breakdown, banner types, and how many still skip a banner entirely.
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A practical guide to writing a WordPress privacy policy: the built-in Privacy tools, plugin data, comment cookies, and WooCommerce checkout fields most templates skip.
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A digital-product refund policy has to solve problems a physical-goods template never mentions: whether all-sales-final holds up in practice, how to keep chargebacks down on goods delivered instantly, and how much of your policy the platform you sell through already overrides.
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Only 45% of the 11,708 US websites Wesleyan University researchers tracked actually honored Global Privacy Control opt-out signals as of April 2024, per research presented at USENIX Security 2025. See measured compliance rates by industry, self-reported confidence versus tested behavior, and a real enforcement fine.
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24% of US adults blindly accept all cookies when prompted, per an August 2025 Pollfish survey of 1,000 US adults for All About Cookies. Real click data shows the true rate swings from under 1% to 98.8% depending on how the banner is built.
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The FTC gave final approval on June 5, 2026 to a modified order against EdTech vendor Illuminate Education, requiring a full data security program and mandatory data minimization after a breach exposed 10.1 million students' records, including health-related data.
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