DATA PROTECTION
Cookies: the Italian Data Protection Authority launches a public consultation on the rules for their use.
The Italian Data Protection Authority has launched a public consultation on the rules for the use of cookies by web sites.
The European Data Protection Regulation no. 679/2016, in fact, despite not having changed the rules relating to cookies and other tracking tools, has strengthened the power of control of the interested subjects, focusing both on the "unambiguous" character of consent to the processing of personal data, and on the implementation of the data protection principles from the design stage and for default settings (so-called "privacy by design and by default"). This consequently makes some clarifications necessary on the correct ways to make the information online to network users and to acquire their consent when necessary.
The Italian Data Protection Authority has therefore decided to address again the issue of the use of cookies and other tracking tools in order to integrate its previous interventions of 2014 and 2015, in light of the indications provided by the EDPB in the Guidelines of May 4, 2020 on the consent. And this also because of the long interval of time that has elapsed, the monitoring carried out on the concrete implementation of the rules prescribed at the time and the ever-increasing diffusion of new technologies that present potential pervasiveness not yet codified.
To this end, the Italian Data Protection Authority has prepared new guidelines on which it now intends to launch a public consultation. The Guidelines contain, among other things, some indications relating to “passive” tracking systems (such as fingerprinting), to "scrolling", to the reiteration of requests for consent from users, to third-party cookies.
The consultation - aimed at entrepreneurs, consumers and operators - aims to acquire observations and proposals on the indications contained in the Guidelines.
(Source: Web site garanteprivacy.it – Author and Ownership of the contents: Italian Data Protection Authority).
The European Data Protection Regulation no. 679/2016, in fact, despite not having changed the rules relating to cookies and other tracking tools, has strengthened the power of control of the interested subjects, focusing both on the "unambiguous" character of consent to the processing of personal data, and on the implementation of the data protection principles from the design stage and for default settings (so-called "privacy by design and by default"). This consequently makes some clarifications necessary on the correct ways to make the information online to network users and to acquire their consent when necessary.
The Italian Data Protection Authority has therefore decided to address again the issue of the use of cookies and other tracking tools in order to integrate its previous interventions of 2014 and 2015, in light of the indications provided by the EDPB in the Guidelines of May 4, 2020 on the consent. And this also because of the long interval of time that has elapsed, the monitoring carried out on the concrete implementation of the rules prescribed at the time and the ever-increasing diffusion of new technologies that present potential pervasiveness not yet codified.
To this end, the Italian Data Protection Authority has prepared new guidelines on which it now intends to launch a public consultation. The Guidelines contain, among other things, some indications relating to “passive” tracking systems (such as fingerprinting), to "scrolling", to the reiteration of requests for consent from users, to third-party cookies.
The consultation - aimed at entrepreneurs, consumers and operators - aims to acquire observations and proposals on the indications contained in the Guidelines.
(Source: Web site garanteprivacy.it – Author and Ownership of the contents: Italian Data Protection Authority).
