The new privacy headache cropping up in some central European countries has been dubbed a “cookie paywall,” and it could make surfing the web very expensive.With a U.S. federal privacy law on the horizon, onerous cookie paywalls could be a vision of the future for the American internet, too, if regulators aren’t careful.They get paid with data or they get paid with money,” said Cristiana Santos, an assistant professor of privacy and data protection law at Utrecht University, and co-author of an upcoming research paper (PDF) examining cookie paywalls: “Your Consent Is Worth 75 Euros A Year – Measurement and Lawfulness of Cookie Paywalls.” The paper will be presented at the 2022 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society in November.With the charging case, you’ll get up to 30 hours of listening time and if you’re ever caught with a dead battery, just five minutes of charging will get you an hour of use.“I hope that regulators, courts and policymakers recognize this threat and put a stop on it.” The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Europe’s sweeping privacy law, requires companies obtain your consent before they collect and process your data."