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Re:Ask HN: How will the GDPR law handle tracking cookies? by bruno_rzn on Thursday March 01, 2018 @06:41AM (#16491226)
Thanks a lot. Very interesting link.

Same question: this iFrame would be used to store information related to the user across websites, it kind of works like a cross-domain-cookie-replacement : could GDPR make these kind of tooling illegal ? Should we display a very specific popup to tell the user what those scripts really do ? And have an opt-out option ?

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Re:Ask HN: How will the GDPR law handle tracking cookies? by fenier on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:49AM (#16491511)
Depends a lot about the data you are collecting I suppose. Not a Lawyer, don't know the use case. Can't really venture a guess on where it'd fall.
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Re:Ask HN: How will the GDPR law handle tracking cookies? by kasey_junk on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:14AM (#16492127)
It could make this illegal for sure. On your second point, remember GDPR requires opt-in.
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