08 APR 2026

Compliant cookie banners: the Garante’s 2026 checklist

The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) requires the “Reject” button in a cookie banner to carry the same visual weight as “Accept,” and consent to be provable over time. Simple rules — yet ignored by most of the Italian websites we analyze. Here is the point-by-point checklist we use to audit a site, and how we build our own banners to be compliant from day one.