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by L0stRegulator 2412 days ago
They are different but well related 'laws'.

The 'Cookie Law' is the 2011 ePrivacy Directive. it will be replaced by the ePrivacy Regulation (eventually). https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/

The modern privacy law is GDPR, which came in in 2018. Pre-dating that were the somewhat country-specific interpretations of the 1995 Data Protection Directive.