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by GlitchMr 2172 days ago
It's not personal data, so it's not under the scope of GDPR.
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BeniBoy 2172 days ago
Yeah, no. This about the ePrivacy directive, if you don't have proper consent, you can't read/write tracers regardless of wether this is personnal data or not, except for tracers needed to establish the communication or demanded by the user (carts, login, etc).

EDIT: Thought about it, and if you only record the button click and does not identify the user, it works, and I am wrong! In general ePrivacy is very restrictive, only about access to terminal and not about personnal data ( and btw PII is not a GDPR thing, we say personnal data), but here it's ok! So yeah, no to me!

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kevsim 2172 days ago
There’s no tracer. Just a counter of how many said yes vs how many said no. There’s no personally identifiable information there
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afiori 2172 days ago
the downside of this method is that it is impossible to discard duplicated negative answers.
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iso1631 2172 days ago
Functional cookies (e.g has displayed banner to this user) are fine, you don't need consent
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crawlcrawler 2172 days ago
GDPR defines what is PII and then regulates when companies may use PII. A page visit counter collects anonymous data. Anonymous data is not PII. You cannot tell I was their 345th visitor.

>> Yeah, no.

Exactly.

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