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Gizmodo reporter Shoshana Wodinsky writes that a report by MIT researchers finds many websites are not complying with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “Only 11.8 percent of the 680 sites researchers analyzed met the ‘minimum requirements’ that the researchers set forth,” Wodinsky explains, “specifically, that consent for user data collection through cookies and other technologies must be freely and explicitly given.”