'Cookie Control shoot-defeating '

- The cookie provision which stipulates that websites need to ask for permission for the use of so-called 'tracking cookies', is ineffective and creates a lot of annoyance. That says Actal, the Advisory Board on regulatory pressure.

The Dutch cookie provision is valid since 2012 and is derived directly from the European Privacy Directive. The determination to protect the privacy of online users. Because when opening Web sites are often placed cookies on your computer that collect unseen data.

'In practice, most people click cookie messages routinely way and accept them as the installation and use of cookies, without knowing what this means for their privacy. The cookie provision in its current form does not work, but delivers a lot of pressure and frustration, 'says the president of Actal, Jan ten Hoopen.

It also helps according to Actal not that consumers often have no choice. Because if you do not accept cookies, the website is often unusable.

Actal calls for the further development of browsers, so save the cookie preferences of someone and automatically process.