This article originally appeared in Digiday: https://digiday.com/sponsored/mediatrustbcs-008-eu-publishers-clean-cookies-get-burned-gdpr/
The ticking clock on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) website is a stark warning for digital publishers behind on preparations for the EU’s massive expansion of data privacy rules. The GDPR is coming, and soon.
Europe’s privacy laws are tightening even further, potentially limiting the data that publishers can collect and the ways they can collect it. The GDPR is technology neutral: but – once again – it’s the cookie that will be caught in the GDPR’s crosshairs. The GDPR has broadened the scope of personal data to include online identifiers, such as cookies and other identifying code such as pixel fires or device fingerprinting). Cookies gathering user data without a lawful basis (e.g. consent) will fall on the wrong side of GDPR. That puts publishers at risk of potentially groundbreaking fines and penalties. That’s why we’ve prepared this guide to the three types of cookies to watch out for, and how publishers can manage them.
https://digiday.com/sponsored/mediatrustbcs-008-eu-publishers-clean-cookies-get-burned-gdpr/
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