national Commission on informatics and liberties (CNIL) confirms that websites and advertising agencies should obtain the approval of webuser before storing cookies on the computers.
This is a new step towards less intrusive Internet navigation. The CNIL has issued a "recommendation" that limits the use of cookies, this kind of invisible software that is installed on computers and mobile phones and let the website and corporate advertising familiar with users online activities Internet.
cookies should now be installed without user approval when used for advertising purposes. This recommendation of the CNIL is not a legal requirement, but it sets a standard which requires websites to comply with the Data Protection Act.
Cookies can certainly be useful because they allow for example to record your navigation language or store your passwords. But they also give amazing clues about your interests, search the internet, providing a unique way for advertisers to target their promotional messages.
France only applies the European directives on strengthening the obligation to inform users about cookies. Those standards require that the storage of cookies can be implemented only with the prior approval of the users.
The CNIL lists down "principles that must be followed to allow the use of these devices in accordance" with the Data Protection Act. The types of cookies "need information and the user's prior approval," says the CNIL those "relating to the operations of targeted advertising," those who are used to measure the public or "tracers" networks social generated by sharing buttons. These cookies "may be delivered or read from the terminal that the person does not consent," he said, is this "recommendation" that responds to website publishers, but also to their "partners" that advertising agencies and social networks. the CNIL recommends that users be informed "at different simple and understandable for fed cookies and read the words," and they can accept or not.
the CNIL also launched a tool called downloadable "Cookieviz" for free on its website, allowing everyone to view real-time filing and reading cookies while browsing, "namely that the site you visit information of 'address. "
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