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Cookie is a technical solution. The law isn't about cookies but about privacy. The alternative to asking permission to do intrusive things is to avoid doing in
by cryptonym 6y ago
Cookie is a technical solution. The law isn't about cookies but about privacy.
The alternative to asking permission to do intrusive things is to avoid doing intrusive things.
- p410n3 6y agoFinally someone who knows this! Even (some) "SEO advice" blogs have suggested to just use local storage instead of cookies. Just no. Both the e-privacy directive and the GDPR are very broad in their articulation and never mention specific technique's, technologies or anything like that. A good example is gdpr article 32. Fun fact: the e privacy directive (which defines the cookie rules) isn't actually passed yet and technically you don't need cookie banners how they are now. Purely informational banners would be enough, but the directive already _should_ have passed but was delayed, and since gdpr spooked everyone, everything and everyone is using cookie banners now anyway
- privacylawthrow 6y ago>Fun fact: the e privacy directive (which defines the cookie rules) isn't actually passed yet and technically you don't need cookie banners how they are now. Purely informational banners would be enough, but the directive already _should_ have passed but was delayed, and since gdpr spooked everyone, everything and everyone is using cookie banners now anyway The ePrivacy Directive passed in 2002. It was amended in 2009 to include the cookie rule. The ePrivacy Regulation which would codify cookie requirements as an EU-wide regulation has not passed yet.
- p410n3 6y agoMy bad. Thanks!
- M2Ys4U 6y agoYou're confusing the upcoming ePrivacy regulation with the existing ePrivacy directive - one that's been in force for 18 years. Just like people thought that the data protection was a new concept when the GDPR was created, ignoring the fact that the Data Protection Directive had been around for decades.
- p410n3 6y agoMy bad. Thanks!