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Cookies are only mentioned once in the GDPR, as an example in the preamble (paragraph 30). Article 4. defines personal data and identifiers without referencing
by progval 5y ago
Cookies are only mentioned once in the GDPR, as an example in the preamble (paragraph 30). Article 4. defines personal data and identifiers without referencing specific technologies:
> (1) ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
- pgeorgi 5y agoIn the English speaking sphere people get hung up on "cookie laws" because the UK had a specific implementation of such a law in 1998 or so. GDPR and many of the non-UK privacy laws that preceded it in Europe didn't concentrate on cookies but on the user identification concept, but "cookie law stupid" is a meme by now.