Most of the UK's top websites fail GDPR, claims ImmuniWeb

By Bobby Hellard for IT PRO
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

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The stats reveal that sites operating across the rest of Europe are more likely to be compliant with GDPR. A study of popular sites in France found 83 of its top 100 were non-compliant, while in Germany this fell to 50. The reasons for this are noticeably different, however, as sites in France and Germany are far more likely (50% and 40% respectively) to have missing or hard to reach privacy policies.

"We can see laudable efforts aimed to improve web application security and adhere to GDPR requirements amid European companies," said Ilia Kolochenko, CEO and founder of ImmuniWeb. "However, there is a long road before the majority of organisations value actual security above paper-based compliance thereby providing their users with the privacy and security they truly deserve.

For the EU as a whole, 51.5% had hard to understand privacy policies and 78.25% showed insecure cookie usage. These are relatively alarming statistic considering GDPR is now one-year-old. Read Full Article