Accept All Cookies? ICO Prompts Top UK Websites to Make It Clear What Data They Collect from Users

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced a major milestone in its push to clean up cookie-consent practices across the UK web.

More than 95 % of the top 1,000 UK websites now pass the ICO’s compliance checks. This gives an estimated 80 % of UK internet users – about 40 million people aged 14+ – greater control over how they are tracked online.

That success follows months of targeted assessments: the ICO evaluated whether sites loaded non-essential advertising cookies only afte