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Why do you bombard me with a bullshit consent box while I was just reading the front page of the website? Requesting one single page shouldn't do anything that

Why do you bombard me with a bullshit consent box while I was just reading the front page of the website? Requesting one single page shouldn't do anything that would need consent.

zdkl 8y ago
I thought this comment was excessive, but getting the same "accept our PP" over said PP is a bit too much.
basseq 8y ago
Welcome to GDPR. Processing of any personal information ("any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person") requires "clear, free, specific and unambiguous" consent. GDPR requires that you inform your subscribers of the existence of data processing operations and its purposes. Cookies, for example, may track identifying information. Thus, websites are compelled under the law to inform you of their practices actively and directly. Even requesting one page.
- detaro 8y ago
  > Processing of any personal information ("any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person") requires "clear, free, specific and unambiguous" consent. That's totally wrong, please don't spread falsehoods like this. Consent is merely one of several possible bases for processing.
- Rjevski 8y ago
  Depends what the cookies were used for. But even if we assume all cookies require consent, the answer seems simple: don’t set any cookies. There is no functional reason for a content-only website to require cookies.
- zaarn 8y ago
  Not every processing of personal information requires consent. To display you a webpage I need to process your IP address, this doesn't require any consent as it is necessary to operate the webpage at all. Similarly a cookie that tracks the contents of a shopping bag does not immediately require consent. If you ask a customer for a physical address during the checkout you don't need consent either. You need consent if you want to process this data for anything but the immediately necessary purposes, ie analyzing unanonymized IPs or the contents of shopping bags or using shopping bag cookies to track visitors.

Why do you bombard me with a bullshit consent box while I was just reading the front page of the website? Requesting one single page shouldn't do anything that would need consent.

zdkl 8y ago

I thought this comment was excessive, but getting the same "accept our PP" over said PP is a bit too much.

basseq 8y ago

Welcome to GDPR. Processing of any personal information ("any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person") requires "clear, free, specific and unambiguous" consent. GDPR requires that you inform your subscribers of the existence of data processing operations and its purposes. Cookies, for example, may track identifying information. Thus, websites are compelled under the law to inform you of their practices actively and directly. Even requesting one page.

detaro 8y ago
> Processing of any personal information ("any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person") requires "clear, free, specific and unambiguous" consent. That's totally wrong, please don't spread falsehoods like this. Consent is merely one of several possible bases for processing.
Rjevski 8y ago
Depends what the cookies were used for. But even if we assume all cookies require consent, the answer seems simple: don’t set any cookies. There is no functional reason for a content-only website to require cookies.
zaarn 8y ago
Not every processing of personal information requires consent. To display you a webpage I need to process your IP address, this doesn't require any consent as it is necessary to operate the webpage at all. Similarly a cookie that tracks the contents of a shopping bag does not immediately require consent. If you ask a customer for a physical address during the checkout you don't need consent either. You need consent if you want to process this data for anything but the immediately necessary purposes, ie analyzing unanonymized IPs or the contents of shopping bags or using shopping bag cookies to track visitors.