Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
by Y-bar on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:50AM
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The stupid thing is that GDPR says nothing about requiring those policy pop ups, that law was discontinued (amended) when GDPR took effect. But no requirements for these pop ups remain
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Re:Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
by lentil on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:14AM
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It wasn't discontinued. It was amended to take into account aspects of GDPR, but the rules are very much still in effect.
It's covered by PECR. There's a good overview of the rules here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...
The main change GDPR brought to it (as I understand it) is that it introduced stricter rules about how consent works. But even though GDPR doesn't specifically require cookie warning, it does require that you get informed consent from people before you store personally identifiable information about them; in many cases this effectively means getting their permission before using tracking cookies.
So tl/dr, it's primarily PECR that covers cookie handling, but GDPR also plays a role.