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> What headache? A sensible solution: when EU visitor is detected, don't set cookies. The headache is convincing someone to pay a lawyer to agree that this is
by quartz 5y ago
> What headache? A sensible solution: when EU visitor is detected, don't set cookies.
The headache is convincing someone to pay a lawyer to agree that this is the solution when serving content to the EU is outside your publication's mission.
Also: The Exponent isn't Purdue, it's independent. Purdue chose email as their publication medium.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoThe GDPR is about personal data. It can get complex when you actually start to deal with personal data. You need to notify users, enable them to modify their data and so on. For many platforms this is already very easy or built in, for some like ERP systems it was quite complicated. Fortunately there exist a very simple solution: don't gather personal data. Note that it does not necessarily applies to cookies: they are considered personal data only if they can be used to identify the individual.[0] There is exactly zero chance anybody would go after you if you don't set cookies or set them for reasons other than making personal identification possible. [0] https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/how-the-gdpr-affects-cookie-policies https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/how-the-gdpr-affects-coo...