Publication details
Vývoj identifikačních metod koncových zařízení
| Title in English | Development of terminal equipment identification methods |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The paper comments on the current situation of the practice of terminal equipment identification by websites in cyberspace. At first, author presents a clear analysis of the current situation, based on a comparison of the results of several investigations of various international research teams. It describes the most common unfair practices of online identification. This is in contrast to the activity of the Czech Office for Personal Data Protection and its sanctioning. The author then points out to the gradual transition from the predominant method of identification by using http cookies to other more advanced methods, including web beacons, fingerprinting or methods storing identifiers in various places in terminal equipment such as local storage, etc. In his claims, the author draws on his own survey of the most frequently visited Czech web pages. The quantitative research is focused precisely on the fulfillment of legal obligations by web pages using advanced identification methods. Thus, the article presents both the conclusions of the quantitative survey itself and the consequences of the observed phenomena. |
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