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Third-party tracking is not inherently illegal under GDPR, even without consent. GDPR regulates personal data; if you're collecting genuinely anonymous usage da

Third-party tracking is not inherently illegal under GDPR, even without consent. GDPR regulates personal data; if you're collecting genuinely anonymous usage data that cannot be attributed to a specific individual by any reasonable means, you don't need consent. I can't say how compliant any of these websites are, but the presence of a third-party tracking cookie does not automatically mean that a website is in breach. Nothing in the article clearly points to a breach of the GDPR. Edit: I'm being downvoted for this comment, so I'd invite you to actually read the legislation. https://gdpr-info.eu/ https://gdpr-info.eu/

JangoSteve 8y ago
I didn't downvote you, but from the article: > The group said this could be used to "infer sensitive facts about [users'] health condition and life situation" and be resold to target ads. "These citizens have no clear way to prevent this leakage, understand where their data is sent, or to correct or delete the data," it said. The second quoted sentence in particular, if true, would seem to be in violation of GDPR, more specifically several sections/articles within Chapter 3.
sisu2019 8y ago
yeah yeah sure, unless you are $CURRENT_TRADEWAR_ENEMY then suddenly everything is PI and here is your fine, shut up and pay. It's plain to see that there are two version of this law: anything the EU or a member state (well maybe not those pesky Hungarians though) does is OKE DOKE and everything YOU want to do is a terribly expensive violation.
Theodores 8y ago
What about the cookie law? I don't get what has happened to the 'cookie law'. I have never seen a tutorial on how to do analytics properly, where you ask first and then run the 'gtag' script. The tutorials always show 'bang this in the header' and that is it. I would be interested in any article that shows how to do this properly, so on user interaction the cookie is created. I can figure it out for myself but that is not the point. I just see an absence of articles on how to do Analytics in a cookie compliant way where nothing is written on the visitor's computer unless they are okay with it. So if anyone has the article that has eluded me, please post. As an example of my misunderstanding, not with GA but with the BBC: If you go and clear BBC News cookies it comes up with some privacy notice thing at the top of the page but puts half a dozen cookies down. I thought you had to click okay before a cookie was splurged onto your computer. Have I misunderstood how it is supposed to work? Can you just disgorge the cookies and just show some boring cookie notice after that initial event?

JangoSteve 8y ago

I didn't downvote you, but from the article: > The group said this could be used to "infer sensitive facts about [users'] health condition and life situation" and be resold to target ads. "These citizens have no clear way to prevent this leakage, understand where their data is sent, or to correct or delete the data," it said. The second quoted sentence in particular, if true, would seem to be in violation of GDPR, more specifically several sections/articles within Chapter 3.

sisu2019 8y ago

yeah yeah sure, unless you are $CURRENT_TRADEWAR_ENEMY then suddenly everything is PI and here is your fine, shut up and pay. It's plain to see that there are two version of this law: anything the EU or a member state (well maybe not those pesky Hungarians though) does is OKE DOKE and everything YOU want to do is a terribly expensive violation.

Theodores 8y ago

What about the cookie law? I don't get what has happened to the 'cookie law'. I have never seen a tutorial on how to do analytics properly, where you ask first and then run the 'gtag' script. The tutorials always show 'bang this in the header' and that is it. I would be interested in any article that shows how to do this properly, so on user interaction the cookie is created. I can figure it out for myself but that is not the point. I just see an absence of articles on how to do Analytics in a cookie compliant way where nothing is written on the visitor's computer unless they are okay with it. So if anyone has the article that has eluded me, please post. As an example of my misunderstanding, not with GA but with the BBC: If you go and clear BBC News cookies it comes up with some privacy notice thing at the top of the page but puts half a dozen cookies down. I thought you had to click okay before a cookie was splurged onto your computer. Have I misunderstood how it is supposed to work? Can you just disgorge the cookies and just show some boring cookie notice after that initial event?