Contribution to the public consultation on the CNIL's draft recommendation on "cookies and other trackers"

Michael Toth (1) , Nataliia Bielova (1) , Cristiana Santos (1) , Vincent Roca (1) , Célestin Matte (1)

1 PRIVATICS - Privacy Models, Architectures and Tools for the Information Society

In this document, we present our opinion on the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (hereinafter, "CNIL") Draft Recommendation "On the practical procedures for collecting the consent provided for in article 82 of the French data protection act, concerning operations of storing or gaining access to information in the terminal equipment of a user (recommendation "cookies and other trackers")" from January 14 th , 2020 [5]. We first provide a high-level opinion and feedback on the CNIL draft recommendation, that summarizes our more detailed analysis of various paragraphs of the draft. In the following sections, we first present a quotation from the draft recommendation on cookies and other trackers in a visual box, and then provide our opinion, concerns or open questions. In the bold text we emphasize our recommendations. In our reasoning, we often rely on the legal and technical analysis of consent dialogs we have conducted, which is now available as a draft paper [22].

Domaines: Droit; Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Web

Michael Toth, Nataliia Bielova, Cristiana Santos, Vincent Roca, Célestin Matte. Contribution to the public consultation on the CNIL's draft recommendation on "cookies and other trackers". 2020. ⟨hal-02490531⟩