Cookies in 2022: Amendment to the Electronic Communications Act

Published

Dec 02 2021

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I enjoy working with innovative, creative and technology-rich businesses. Having joined our firm in 2009, I head up our Intellectual Property and Tech & Comms Groups in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Roman Norek

Senior Associate
Czech Republic

I'm a senior associate based in our Prague office, focusing on Privacy and Data Protection and International HR Services.

Karolína Rösler

Associate
Czech Republic

As an associate based at the Bird & Bird office in Prague, I work with Corporate, Commercial and Employment teams, offering complex transactional legal support.

On 18 October 2021, the Amendment to the Electronic Communications Act (“ECA”) was promulgated in the Collection of Laws. The approved amendment to the ECA affects, i.a., the legal regulation of the use of cookies (and other similar technologies used to distinguish terminal devices of users) by introducing the need for active user consent for the use of most types of cookies. Anyone who places cookies on a user’s terminal device when operating a website or mobile application should therefore take care to check their settings for the use of cookies.

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