Why do websites display cookie notifications?
There are thousands of such examples on the Internet
You’ve probably heard about the story with LinkedIn. It was blocked in 2016 for violating Federal Law 152-FZ “On Personal Data” . LinkedIn used and transferred data about the location and behavior of users on the website without their consent.
The most interesting thing is that there is no specific
“Personal data – any information related to a directly or indirectly determined or determinable individual (subject of personal data).”
As judicial practice shows in the case of LinkedIn, personal data includes, among other things, the history of a person’s behavior on the website, that is, cookies.
What if you simply collect data and do not use it in any way? Is this considered processing ? Yes. The law states that the concept of “processing” includes “collection, recording, systematization, accumulation, storage, clarification (updating, modification), extraction, use, transfer (distribution, provision, access), depersonalization, blocking, deletion, destruction of personal data.”