# Cookie Notice Compliance

Recent research conducted by ETH reveals that 65.4% of the most visited websites in the EU offer a cookie rejection option, yet they could still potentially gather user data even after users explicitly reject their cookies. 🕵️‍♂️  
  
Is privacy compliance so difficult to get right?  
  
Check out the complete paper "Automated Large-Scale Analysis of Cookie Notice Compliance" by [Ahmed Bouhoula](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-bouhoula-898806b4/) [Karel Kubíček](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karel-kub%C3%AD%C4%8Dek-44b82014b/) [Amit Zac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-zac-268b2b152/) [Carlos Cotrini Jiménez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-cotrini-jim%C3%A9nez-b16b174a/) [David Basin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-basin-32a2a246/) at [https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf)

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