With well over 40% for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Saxony-Anhalt has witnessed a landmark election night. DW's reporters were on the ground.
Cookies are considered ‘personal data’ under GDPR and ePrivacy directive of the EU, requiring informed user consent for any non-essential cookie - what is non-essential is highly debated, which is why essentially any significant website in the EU errs on the side of caution and uses a cookie popup.
Name any EU news website that doesn’t use cookies in some form and have a cookie popup, I’ll consider my statement inaccurate.
i don’t have an example but one of the the privacy blogs i watch had numerous examples of even eu websites that were in violation and there being no consequences (i think it was ben jordan)
mostly it was around the pop up not properly following the requirement but in some cases there just wasn’t one
now this was older so maybe they’ve since fixed themselves but this was after like a year or two of the requirement going into enactment so it wasnt an accident they were not in compliance
You mean the legally-mandated GDPR cookie notice? That have existed for over a decade?
Have you visited the internet before yesterday?
lmao being told they are fucking you doesn’t make it good, and i wonder why they were legally forced to do so…
i have all that shit blocked on pc so no that part of the internet doest interact with me outside of my phone and lemmy
The cookie notice isn’t legally mandated. It is legally mandated to ask users before collecting Data you don’t actually need.
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Cookies are considered ‘personal data’ under GDPR and ePrivacy directive of the EU, requiring informed user consent for any non-essential cookie - what is non-essential is highly debated, which is why essentially any significant website in the EU errs on the side of caution and uses a cookie popup.
Name any EU news website that doesn’t use cookies in some form and have a cookie popup, I’ll consider my statement inaccurate.
i don’t have an example but one of the the privacy blogs i watch had numerous examples of even eu websites that were in violation and there being no consequences (i think it was ben jordan)
mostly it was around the pop up not properly following the requirement but in some cases there just wasn’t one
now this was older so maybe they’ve since fixed themselves but this was after like a year or two of the requirement going into enactment so it wasnt an accident they were not in compliance