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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by p410n3 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:44AM (#23091517)
The gdpr does NOT plainly state cookies. It refers to any form of user tracking from websites!

Quoting recital 30 of gdpr

"NATURAL PERSONS MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH ONLINE IDENTIFIERS…SUCH AS INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES, COOKIE IDENTIFIERS OR OTHER IDENTIFIERS…. THIS MAY LEAVE TRACES WHICH, IN PARTICULAR WHEN COMBINED WITH UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS AND OTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED BY THE SERVERS, MAY BE USED TO CREATE PROFILES OF THE NATURAL PERSONS AND IDENTIFY THEM."

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-30/

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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by centimeter on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:39AM (#23092226)
When a corporate lawyer hears a law explicitly list technologies like "IP addresses" and "cookies", they're going to (rationally) get scared when you step outside the clear boundaries of that law, and it's their job to place institutional pressure on technical people within the corporation not to do things that make them scared.
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