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When you go to a website, if they are GDPR compliant they ask whether you consent to them tracking you. If as a user, I click "Deny", how does that website comply with that request? I as the user am not asked again, which to me indicates they have stored something somewhere, probably via a cookie.
Is this the correct way to obtain and work with GDPR? I would have thought by denying tracking, this would include any cookies.
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Website cookie consent is the interaction between your website and end-users in which they decide whether to allow cookies and trackers to be activated to process their personal data.
If you are not compliant, your business can suffer a major fine, up to 4% of their annual global turnover or €20 million (whichever is higher). Despite all the changes and challenges, there are some advantages to the new regulations.
Cookie consent works by providing website visitors with options for consenting to, denying, or setting their preferences for the use of cookies on that website. Cookie consent is usually given through site banners or pop-ups when the visitor first enters the site.
As a necessary part of web browsing, HTTP cookies help web developers give you more personal, convenient website visits. Cookies let websites remember you, your website logins, shopping carts and more. But they can also be a treasure trove of private info for criminals to spy on.
GDPR legislation pertains primarily to Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Storing dissent in a cookie or localStorage doesn't violate that assuming there isn't anything that identifies the particular user, like trackingConsent=false.
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Cookies are not only related to "tracking". They are mostly used to persist the state of the application, like session information or cookie acceptance. It is not gonna work otherwise, only option is to disable them on the browser level, but the legislator chosen to force page owner to do it.
You may provide the page that you are asking about. It quite probably stores your refusal in a cookie or some modern persistent storage. Personally I saw page that after refusal was simply asking again and again.
You may also check by yourself if there are some cookies stored. Depends on the browser, but quite probably f12 button and storage tab.
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