Journal article
The way the cookie crumbles: online tracking meets behavioural economics
- Abstract:
- Limitations on online tracking are object of a regulatory debate that has shifted to the use of default rules to enhance privacy. The European Union implemented this idea with the Cookies Directive. The Directive aims to change the default system for tracking and move to an opt-in system in which data subjects must agree to it beforehand. This article evaluates the Directive’s implementation across Member States and studies the cases of the Netherlands and the UK. It then draws from the behavioural economics literature on default rules to evaluate these regulations and to consider whether it is possible to implement the policy in a way that avoids some of the problems they faced.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Authors
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- International Journal of Law and Information Technology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 38-62
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1464-3693
- ISSN:
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0967-0769
- Language:
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English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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2031197
- Local pid:
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pubs:2031197
- Deposit date:
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2024-09-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Ignacio Cofone
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Rights statement:
- © The Author (2016). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
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