[theanonymousone]

Thanks. It's a bit unfortunate. I essentially only want to keep a visitor count. So I have to show the the same banner (at least to be on the cautious side) as the guy who is sharing my data with their 732 "partners"? :-/

Somewhere in the original article it was mentioned that even hashing is not enough to make data non-PII. I assume then that's also out of questions?

[9dev]

Think about it the other way around. Is that visitor counter essential for your site? No. It’s cool. It’s interesting to know how many have visited, but that’s it. Now all you need to do is asking visitors if it’s okay to record their visit for the purpose of cool statistics. There is no requirement in the law to have a banner, or legalese speak. The only thing that actually matters is that you ask for consent in a way that actually shows why you want to track them.

[theanonymousone]

Poof. What if I don't keep the IP at all and just the timestamp? Essentially "Someone visited at 23:12 January 20th", nothing else stored. Still banner needed?

[d1sxeyes]

No. But then someone could ruin your stats by sitting there and refreshing all day long.

[theanonymousone]

The price to pay if I don't want want to be in the same bucket with data dealers...