Cookies and EU Law: History, Future Regulation and Critique

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Authors	TOMÍŠEK Jan
Year of publication	2023
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Technology and Regulation
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Law
Citation
Web	Open access článku
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.26116/techreg.2023.004
Keywords	cookies; ePrivacy directive; ePrivacy regulation
Description	Cookies and similar technologies can be used to track the online behaviour of internet users and can pose risks to their privacy and other fundamental rights. The use of cookies and similar technologies is therefore regulated by EU law. The article describes the history of EU law regulating cookies, analyses its current form and application to different technologies, and describes the proposals for the ePrivacy Regulation. Based on the analysis, it provides a critique of both the current law and the proposals and suggests ways forward in the regulation of cookies and similar technologies.
Related projects:	Právo a technologie XI