Mapp: Are Cookies Really Dead? How Cookie Consent Affects Your Marketing

Mapp just published another brilliant post:

These days, browsing the internet feels a lot like wading through quicksand. Almost all web applications first ask users for consent on an unmanageable amount of usage scenarios. The reason behind this: honorable intention of global politics – and the European Union in particular – to return data sovereignty to users after decades of unnoticed data collection by countless service providers. In 2018, the European Union enacted a new legislation to protect its citizens’ personal data, potentially affecting every consumer brand worldwide: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Unlike its predecessor, Directive 95/46/EG, which had to be transposed into national law by EU member states, the GDPR has been directly applicable in all EU member states since May 25, 2018.   Why does the GDPR implicate cookie policies? The GDPR was created to enshrine Article 8 of the European Charter of Human Rights,which aims to regulate personal data stored or used by a…

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