In the absence of cookies-related guidance and enforcement by regulators against ordinary website publishers and operators, many e-commerce sites, online publishers and other website operators have taken a “wait and see” approach with respect to implementing GDPR-compliant cookies consent procedures. Recent cookies-related regulatory guidance, however, from the Dutch data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (“Dutch DPA”), and the Bavarian data protection authority, Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (“BayLDA”) sends a clear signal that companies should be taking…