Netherlands: : Proposed amendments to telecommunications law affecting public broadcaster�s website cookies

• Autores: Youssef Fouad
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 10, 2014, págs. 27-28
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • On 15 July 2014, the Dutch authority for consumers and markets (Autoriteit Consument en Markt) (ACM) imposed an order for periodic penalty payments on the Dutch public broadcaster NPO (Nederlandse Publieke Omroep) (see IRIS 2014-8/33). The NPO placed tracking cookies on end-user devices without correctly informing the end-user. Therefore, according to the ACM, the requisite consent for the placing of the tracking cookies was not in accordance with Article 11.7a of the Dutch telecommunications act (Telecommunicatiewet) and the Dutch data protection act (Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens). In order to comply with these laws, consent from the end-user is required in order to place a (non-functional) cookie on their device. Furthermore, the consent has to be given voluntarily and unambiguously, based on information that discloses the specific pre-determined purposes for the placing of the cookie.