VODAFONE ESPAÑA, S.A.U.

AEPD (Spain) case PS-00477-2021, decided 2022-03-09. EUR 70,000.

What the regulator decided

vodafone.es deposited cookies on user terminals before any consent action and provided information about cookies through a banner that did not enable users to refuse them with the same ease as accepting - infringing Article 22.2 of Law 34/2002 (LSSI), the Spanish national transposition of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive.

Primary source

Regulator-owned URL. Quote this in legal briefs and academic citations.

https://www.aepd.es/documento/ps-00477-2021.pdf

Archived snapshot

Wayback Machine snapshot of the primary source. Use this when the regulator URL might be refactored or expire.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240127061533/https://www.aepd.es/documento/ps-00477-2021.pdf

ConsentMark interpretation

Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.

Cite when the scanner finds pre-consent cookies on a Spanish-jurisdiction site - the AEPD has been issuing PS/00xxx/202x cookie sanctions since the LSSI 2020 amendment aligned Spanish law with the EDPB's strict reading of valid consent.

Verification trail

Verified by: donal
Verified at: 2026-05-26
Review due: 2026-11-26

Cite this case

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BibTeX

@misc{consentmark-precedent-aepd-ps-00477-2021,
  author       = {{ConsentMark}},
  year         = {2022},
  title        = {AEPD (Spain) PS-00477-2021 - VODAFONE ESPAÑA, S.A.U.},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/aepd-ps-00477-2021}},
  note         = {ConsentMark methodology v1.3}
}

APA

ConsentMark. (2022, March 9). AEPD (Spain) PS-00477-2021 - VODAFONE ESPAÑA, S.A.U.. Methodology v1.3. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/aepd-ps-00477-2021

Markdown

[AEPD (Spain) PS-00477-2021 - VODAFONE ESPAÑA, S.A.U. - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/aepd-ps-00477-2021)

Plain text

AEPD (Spain) PS-00477-2021 - VODAFONE ESPAÑA, S.A.U. - ConsentMark, 2022-03-09, methodology v1.3, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/aepd-ps-00477-2021