Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court

Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by blibble on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:52PM (#16395466)

> GDPR is not EU Cookie Law (which actually was badly designed law, unlike GDPR)

everyone that has ever written code to set a cookie predicted what the industry response to that cookie legislation would be, but even that trivial foresight was beyond the EU's abilities

if they can't write a good law for something trivial like cookies why would you have any confidence in their abilities to produce a much larger, wider reaching piece of legislation, let alone the ability to predict the second order effects?

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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by jacquesm on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:58PM (#16395524)

Did you know that functional cookies are exempt from the cookie law?

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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by GlitchMr on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:46PM (#16397677)

They are, but the failure of a law is that people did not know that, and just put cookie warnings to be safe, and in the end all websites had cookie warnings making the entire thing pointless.

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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by freeone3000 on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:36PM (#16395890)

What's a functional cookie? What makes it separate from an essential cookie? What, exactly, links it to a user?

Knowing that certain types of cookies is exempt is insufficient knowledge.

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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by TheCoelacanth on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:44PM (#16397215)

Is there no possibility that they might actually learn from the failures of the cookie law and use than knowledge to write a better law this time?

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