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The gdpr does NOT plainly state cookies. It refers to any form of user tracking from websites! Quoting recital 30 of gdpr "NATURAL PERSONS MAY BE ASSOCIATED W
by p410n3 6y ago
The gdpr does NOT plainly state cookies. It refers to any form of user tracking from websites!
Quoting recital 30 of gdpr
"NATURAL PERSONS MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH ONLINE IDENTIFIERS…SUCH AS INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES, COOKIE IDENTIFIERS OR OTHER IDENTIFIERS…. THIS MAY LEAVE TRACES WHICH, IN PARTICULAR WHEN COMBINED WITH UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS AND OTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED BY THE SERVERS, MAY BE USED TO CREATE PROFILES OF THE NATURAL PERSONS AND IDENTIFY THEM."
https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-30/ https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-30/
- centimeter 6y agoWhen a corporate lawyer hears a law explicitly list technologies like "IP addresses" and "cookies", they're going to (rationally) get scared when you step outside the clear boundaries of that law, and it's their job to place institutional pressure on technical people within the corporation not to do things that make them scared.