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Next up: Stabbing people without a knife. If you are tracking people without a lawful basis (e.g. consent), you are violating the GDPR. It doesn't matter if yo
by ptx 2mo ago
Next up: Stabbing people without a knife.
If you are tracking people without a lawful basis (e.g. consent), you are violating the GDPR. It doesn't matter if you use cookies. (The article does mention this towards the end.)
- ndr 2mo agoIt's not (just) GDPR and TFA mentions that as soon as they move on from Cookies, ie point 2 on local storage: "This buys you nothing. Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive". They clearly have a product to sell but the article seems balanced and offers a good list of commonly used/proposed techniques that are not quite compliant. As you alluded, there're more lawful basis than consent, one of most common ones being technical necessity to mitigate abuse.
- ptx 2mo agoRight, but even if you have a lawful basis for processing the data to collect aggregate statistics (which the article mentions), the GDPR still doesn't allow you to process the data for unrelated purposes such as advertising, which is usually what cookie banners are about. If you're using cookies strictly to implement the expected functionality of the service, there's no problem to begin with - you don't need any banners in that case.