Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies

Re:Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking co... by Jon_Lowtek on Sunday April 24, 2022 @07:33PM (#31149263)

IP addresses match the definition in GDPR article 4 point 1: they are "an identification number, location data, an online identifier". Well the second one has to be stretched a bit, so an address matches location data, but the other two fit quite well.

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Re:Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking co... by ghusto on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @09:30AM (#31167233)

If those are the only criteria, then I think it doesn't fit.

When I still live in the UK 6 years ago, IP addresses were rarely fixed, and changed everytime you connected. In fact, people paid extra to get a fixed IP.

I guess it's a bit of a grey area though, since sometimes it fits, sometimes it doesn't.

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Re:Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking co... by Jon_Lowtek on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @09:49PM (#31175338)

no those are not the only criteria, see gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions

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