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Is acceptance of COOKIES part of GDPR?

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Guest user Created:   Oct 22, 2020 Last commented:   Oct 23, 2020

Is acceptance of COOKIES part of GDPR?

These days almost all website mentions caption regarding the acceptance of COOKIES...is this also a part of GDPR?

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Alessandra Nisticò Oct 23, 2020

Cookies are mainly regulated by e-privacy EU Directive 2002/58/EC (actually there is a discussion to approve the e-privacy Regulation but there is no prevision about its final adoption and entering into effects). However, cookies can be considered as part of GDPR compliance, because of Article 7 GDPR on consent request that the data subject needs to give consent for each data processing activity. This means that if I run a website, I need to ask consent to users to track them and maybe to monitor their behavior on the website. I need to ask consent for each data processing which is not strictly necessary to make the website working. 

The importance of consent on cookies had been stressed in May 2020 by the European Data Protection Board with its Guidelines on consent:  https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/files/file1/edpb_guidelines_202005_consent_en.pdf

Here you can find more information:

You can also consider enrolling in this free foundation course:EU GDPR Foundations Course: https://advisera.com/training/eu-gdpr-foundations-course// 

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