The internet has become a common part of life. However, not everyone realizes that there is a danger when clicking on consent to the use of cookies.
Office for the protection of personal data for the first half of 2022 in connection with the legislative change on cookies supervised compliance with the general legislation for the protection of personal data in relation to the setting of the treatment of cookies files with various portal and website operators, he informed himself website.
There were many shortcomings
“We have identified holes that violate the protection of personal data, even in large Internet companies that reach hundreds of thousands of people a day. In the first half of the year, we gave space to operators to adapt to the new legislation. However, now, on our own initiative, we monitor compliance and contact administrators who violate the law in this area to seek compensation. Otherwise, we will proceed with the sanctions“, Jiří Kaucký, President of the Office for the Protection of Personal Data, told Událostem247.
Among the main errors detected by the checks are, for example, the use of non-technical cookies without consent, a period of validity of cookies that is disproportionately long with respect to their purpose, or the absence of an option intended to express one’s disagreement on the use of non-technical cookies in the first level of the cookie bar. The website talked about it ISVS. It was also an offense that the cookie bar made it difficult or impossible to read the website.
Czechs don’t know what they allow with cookies
The office in particular did not specify which specific websites made mistakes. “The cookie opt-in introduced was in the first phase a the operators were then given room to correct their possible errors“Milan Řepka, spokesperson for the Office for the Protection of Personal Data, told Událostem247. Furthermore, the April survey showed that some Czechs do not know what cookies mean. Only a quarter of users know what these digital files are for. The site informs about it Phonetics.
It turned out that the whole half of the Czech population automatically consent to data collection when visiting the website and any provision of all information accessible to third parties, informs Fontech. So the so-called people “they will accept everything“, writes the Fontech site. They can thus consent to the collection of data that the website does not need, and subsequently provide it to third parties. A certain number of Czechs, more precisely 29% of them, also think that cookies slow down the web and, according to 7%, may even infect their computer with a virus, the website concludes.