Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @09:33PM
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> If I need to get explicit opt-in for "So, remembering your shopping cart when you come back requires cookies, that okay with you?"
You don't provided you have a reasonably short retention period, are not storing personal information that is not directly needed for remembering the shopping cart and are only using it for that and not simply using that as a justification for something else.
> Nobody cares whether or not you use cookies to implement a shopping cart.
Nor do the regulations. You have to meet the exactly the same requirements to store personal information using some other mechanism that you do using cookies.
You don't provided you have a reasonably short retention period, are not storing personal information that is not directly needed for remembering the shopping cart and are only using it for that and not simply using that as a justification for something else.
> Nobody cares whether or not you use cookies to implement a shopping cart.
Nor do the regulations. You have to meet the exactly the same requirements to store personal information using some other mechanism that you do using cookies.