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by hjnilsson 3127 days ago
Yes. If the data cannot be tracked to one person, it is not regulated. So anonymous tracking cookies are still OK, but attaching it to an IP/name/phone number etc. is not.
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I don’t believe that’s true. “Anonymous” tracking cookies are still unique to the individual and such can easily contribute to identifying them, and so are included as personal.
Browser signature + IP address is all you need to uniquely correlate a user from system A to system B in the vast majority of cases