News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on We made our SaaS home page cookie-free. Parent comment

Re:We made our SaaS home page cookie-free by briandear on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:45AM (#24981280)
> You can't use an analytics cookie without a cookie banner.

In what country? There is certainly no US law to my knowledge, that says that.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We made our SaaS home page cookie-free by shawabawa3 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:52AM (#24981351)
Everyone's talking about EU law
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We made our SaaS home page cookie-free by volument on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:56AM (#24981390)
That depends solely on what is an "analytics cookie". If it's a permanent identifier, then it's considered PII and requires a GDPR consent. Otherwise GDPR doesn't care. You can freely store foo=bar to a cookie.
[ Parent | on HN ]