Originally Posted By Mark79100
Originally Posted By Crossover
It‘s a nightmare, I deactivated my Facebook music site due to the new EU data protection regulation. Too risky to be sued or pay penalty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation


Crossover...I don't use Facebook...I'm not familiar with it. Is this new "cookie" system so venomous you had to unplug.

Is the new "cookie" regulations better or worse than the system we're still using. Is there anything we need to know about working with this new "cookie coding?"

I'm running XP Pro and Windows 10 computers. I can easily go into my "cookie" folders and erase them every day, but it's not that easy on Windows 10. My list of Windows 10 cookies is somewhere around 300-400 now. They appear faster than I can erase them.

Oh yes, and I put a block on Google and still their cookies show up!


Nothing has changed in technical respect. What has changed is that every website owner is now responsible for strict data protection according to the new EU regulations. As I have no idea what kind of tracking the website hosting service and Google and Facebook are really using it‘s not easy to list up everything that‘s done with the data in the detailed data protection declaration you are obliged to add to your website. It‘s legally impossible to do it correctly in case of a Facebook site as we don‘t even know in detail what Facebook is doing with the data, but courts have ruled that the user who operates the Facebook fanpage is responsible for it. Lawyers say you risk penalty when you run a fanpage.
EU data regulations are very impractical; theoretically you even have to sign a data agreement as soon as you exchange your phone number or business card.