[Thorrez]

You can't lock people up if they're not doing anything illegal. The first step is to write a law making what they're doing illegal. Then if they keep doing it, you'll be able to lock them up.

[troupo]

Companies shipped illegal cookie banners that forced you to click every individual provider to opt-out.

No one went to jail: https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come

[Thorrez]

Does the existing law say that if someone creates a cookie banner like that, then the person can be sent to jail?

If not, then the 1st step to jailing people is to change the law.

[troupo]

Oh. I fully agree.

The EU did find that IAB (behind one of the "industry standard banners") was liable for fines: https://www.euractiv.com/news/top-eu-court-finds-widely-empl... But unfortunately that was partly dismissed on procedural grounds and went nowhere: https://techgdpr.com/blog/data-protection-digest-19052025-di...