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That's correct. https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/ https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/ > It started as an EU Directive that was adopted by all EU

That's correct. https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/ https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/ > It started as an EU Directive that was adopted by all EU countries in May 2011. The Directive gave individuals rights to refuse the use of cookies that reduce their online privacy. Each country then updated its own laws to comply. In the UK this meant an update to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. ... > All websites owned in the EU or targeted towards EU citizens, are now expected to comply with the law.

ge96 9y ago
Not tempting fate here, I will update the site(I'm pretty sure I will to be safe, at the risk of annoying users with a popup, possibly losing functionality on the site) with this in mind, what would they do? Fine me? Air lift me into a European prison? Haha that would be interesting.
- tpetry 9y ago
  If you have no business in EU this law is not for you and you can ignore it. If you're in the EU you may get a fine if you're unlucky.
  - ge96 9y ago
    The whole part of business is "you made money through exploiting their otherwise personal information" ? Interesting... it's like when you sign up for those discount cards at stores, do I see some law somewhere that says "By the way we collect and sell your data for money which can potentially be used against you in the future to deny you health care..." I don't know... out of my field here... but. Interesting, probably worrying about nothing as usual. Like worrying about modifying the icons of big social media sites... what blog/website doesn't create their own version/theme of those buttons... Yeah I'm not clear on that definition of business, if your site has ads, it's meant for the Philippines, and a person in the EU visited your site, and you made money from those ads... is it my fault? Doesn't Google Adsense have to know the content of my site and the visitor to serve ads... Ahhhh
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ge96 9y ago

Not tempting fate here, I will update the site(I'm pretty sure I will to be safe, at the risk of annoying users with a popup, possibly losing functionality on the site) with this in mind, what would they do? Fine me? Air lift me into a European prison? Haha that would be interesting.

tpetry 9y ago
If you have no business in EU this law is not for you and you can ignore it. If you're in the EU you may get a fine if you're unlucky.
- ge96 9y ago
  The whole part of business is "you made money through exploiting their otherwise personal information" ? Interesting... it's like when you sign up for those discount cards at stores, do I see some law somewhere that says "By the way we collect and sell your data for money which can potentially be used against you in the future to deny you health care..." I don't know... out of my field here... but. Interesting, probably worrying about nothing as usual. Like worrying about modifying the icons of big social media sites... what blog/website doesn't create their own version/theme of those buttons... Yeah I'm not clear on that definition of business, if your site has ads, it's meant for the Philippines, and a person in the EU visited your site, and you made money from those ads... is it my fault? Doesn't Google Adsense have to know the content of my site and the visitor to serve ads... Ahhhh
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