Re:Show HN: Trackless - A GDPR-Friendly Google Analytics Opt...
by weinzierl on Sunday May 27, 2018 @08:10AM
(#17166573)
Matomo (formerly Piwik) offers an iframe you can insert in your privacy policy to handle the opt-out and opt-in.
Furthermore if the ePrivacy Regulation (ePR)[2], which was supposed to enter into force along-side the GDPR on May 2018 but was delayed, should be adopted in it's current form first party analytics like Matomo will not require consent. See [3]:
> The proposal also clarifies that no consent is needed for non-privacy intrusive cookies improving internet experience (e.g. to remember shopping cart history) or cookies used by a website to count the number of visitors.
Furthermore if the ePrivacy Regulation (ePR)[2], which was supposed to enter into force along-side the GDPR on May 2018 but was delayed, should be adopted in it's current form first party analytics like Matomo will not require consent. See [3]:
> The proposal also clarifies that no consent is needed for non-privacy intrusive cookies improving internet experience (e.g. to remember shopping cart history) or cookies used by a website to count the number of visitors.
[1] https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_20000/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_(European_...
[3] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/proposal-epriv...