Netherlands: Announced SDT study on internet user information

The Digital Regulation Cooperation Platform (SDT), which is composed of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), and the Dutch Media Authority (CvdM), announced a study on how businesses, organizations, and governments inform internet users in a comprehensible way. In particular, the study focuses on the awareness of internet users about how their data is used. The SDT members will use the results of the study to draft basic principles for effective online transparency and will notify the Dutch legislature if the expansion of the regulatory framework is needed. Moreover, the information arising from the study will be employed to enforce the EU rules concerning digitalization.