The OPTA has the administrators of 96 government websites write to warn them that they are the cookie law violated. The supervisor states that the sites serve as an example and consequently the first to have to comply with the law.
The cookie law, which some months ago was put into effect, regulates which websites users need to be informed about the use of cookies and unambiguously ask your permission to to place cookies on the user’s device. Because the government sites need to lead by example, according to the OPTA, sent the telecomautoriteit a letter to administrators of sites that are in violation. “Other parties will, after all, in case of a decision to certain rules to implement in their consideration to take is whether and how the government itself and the relevant rules has been implemented,” according to the OPTA in the letter. The OPTA has violations detected in 96 of the 121 government sites.
The rules in the Netherlands are stricter than the European directive’s requirements; which states only that sites an opt-out offer, while the Dutch rules, an opt-in scheme to prescribe. Only cookies for things like shopping carts, is not permitted without permission will be placed. Cookies for which consent must be sought, inter alia, for ad networks and statistiekendiensten as Google Analytics. The Cookies that determine whether a user is logged in and what there in a basket, do not fall under the cookie law.
The government introduced the cookie law in June rush in to a fine from the European Commission to avoid. This was virtually no site on the new law prepared, including the sites of the government and of OPTA itself. The rules should be the privacy of internet users more secure.