Measuring Compliance of Consent Revocation on the Web
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| author | Kancherla, Gayatri Priyadarsini Bielova, Nataliia Santos, Cristiana Bichhawat, Abhishek |
| author_facet | Kancherla, Gayatri Priyadarsini Bielova, Nataliia Santos, Cristiana Bichhawat, Abhishek |
| contents | The GDPR requires websites to facilitate the right to revoke consent from Web users. While numerous studies measured compliance of consent with the various consent requirements, no prior work has studied consent revocation on the Web. Therefore, it remains unclear how difficult it is to revoke consent on the websites' interfaces, nor whether revoked consent is properly stored and communicated behind the user interface. Our work aims to fill this gap by measuring compliance of consent revocation on the Web on the top-200 websites. We found that 19.87% of websites make it difficult for users to revoke consent throughout different interfaces, 20.5% of websites require more effort than acceptance, and 2.48% do not provide consent revocation at all, thus violating legal requirements for valid consent. 57.5% websites do not delete the cookies after consent revocation enabling continuous illegal processing of users' data. Moreover, we analyzed 281 websites implementing the IAB Europe TCF, and found 22 websites that store a positive consent despite user's revocation. Surprisingly, we found that on 101 websites, third parties that have received consent upon user's acceptance, are not informed of user's revocation, leading to the illegal processing of users' data by such third parties. Our findings emphasise the need for improved legal compliance of consent revocation, and proper, consistent, and uniform implementation of revocation communication and data deletion practices. |
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| spellingShingle | Measuring Compliance of Consent Revocation on the Web Kancherla, Gayatri Priyadarsini Bielova, Nataliia Santos, Cristiana Bichhawat, Abhishek Cryptography and Security The GDPR requires websites to facilitate the right to revoke consent from Web users. While numerous studies measured compliance of consent with the various consent requirements, no prior work has studied consent revocation on the Web. Therefore, it remains unclear how difficult it is to revoke consent on the websites' interfaces, nor whether revoked consent is properly stored and communicated behind the user interface. Our work aims to fill this gap by measuring compliance of consent revocation on the Web on the top-200 websites. We found that 19.87% of websites make it difficult for users to revoke consent throughout different interfaces, 20.5% of websites require more effort than acceptance, and 2.48% do not provide consent revocation at all, thus violating legal requirements for valid consent. 57.5% websites do not delete the cookies after consent revocation enabling continuous illegal processing of users' data. Moreover, we analyzed 281 websites implementing the IAB Europe TCF, and found 22 websites that store a positive consent despite user's revocation. Surprisingly, we found that on 101 websites, third parties that have received consent upon user's acceptance, are not informed of user's revocation, leading to the illegal processing of users' data by such third parties. Our findings emphasise the need for improved legal compliance of consent revocation, and proper, consistent, and uniform implementation of revocation communication and data deletion practices. |
| title | Measuring Compliance of Consent Revocation on the Web |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15414 |