BERLIN (Reuters) – A German consumer workplace has submitted a legal complaint against Google over its use of cookie banners, which the workplace argues are designed in a approach that violates knowledge safety guidelines.

That rejecting cookies, which gather knowledge on customers for focused commercials, requires extra steps than consenting to them on Google’s search engine web sites is in violation of EU and nationwide legislation, mentioned North Rhine-Westphalia’s consumer workplace.

Google couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.

(Reporting by Nadine Schimroszik, Writing by Miranda Murray; Editing by Madeline Chambers)