Your Consent is Worth 75 Euros a Year

People who do not want their data tracked and shared online can pay a token for a cookie paywall. But are the websites keeping to their side of the bargain? Victor Morel, a Postdoc candidate at the Chalmers University of Technology joins us to discuss his work around auditing the activities of cookie paywalls. He discussed the findings from his analysis and proffers some solutions to making cookie paywalls more transparent.

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Victor Morel: Victor Morel holds a PhD in computer science from Inria - Privatics. His research interests include privacy and data protection, networks security, usability and Human-Computer Interactions, applied cryptography, and ethics of technology in a broad manner. He is currently working in the Security & Privacy Lab at Chalmers University of Technology on usable privacy for IoT. He appreciates sober, hackable, and accessible technology that works.