Well, here goes nothing:
I, Cookie, have this bit-o-business that I feel like I should take care. "Blogger" is of no help, but I feel like I need to do something, so here goes:
On May 25, 2018, the European Union will begin to enforce something called General Data Protection Regulation, and it will impact how and what data is collected and require permissions, compliance, etc. This is to protect the information gathered about EU residents and permissions granted, blah, blah, blah.
I say "blah, blah, blah" because you can look the rule up online and get lots of information. Suffice it to say that Doing Hard Time in Shaker Heights does NOT collect, store, analyze or otherwise commit voodoo any information on anyone who visits the blog other than what Google Analytics provides the blog managers in snapshot form, day by day.
Really, Cookie is feeling a bit like Hodor with all of this.
I do not know who comes and visits this blog - unless you leave a comment - other than how many people stop by and look at a particular post. This is not a business, so I have no interest in who comes here and from what IP. I do not know what kind of operating system, I do not, to our knowledge deploy cookies to your computer. "Blogger - a Google entity - may do so, and you have to take that up with them.
I really would like to be compliant, and since I know nothing about our audiences or their preferences and are not privy to such things, that really takes any Cookie out of that loop.
If you find that you have been blocked from the site, contact your National government, or the EU, and give them what-for keeping you from this site. Shake your fist, no tighter. Damn them! That's the spirit.
All kidding aside, though, I really cannot find how this impacts us or you since I have nothing to do with such things. So while I would love to comply and believe that I would because I can't get to the stuff that this covers.
Wish Cookie all luck, then. This could be nothing, or it can mean headaches for one or all.
Cheers!
Cookie
Oy, we struggled with GDPR compliance at work (for EU and UK-based employees). Gigantic PITA going through the process but, for us at least, in the end it was much ado about nothing. I imagine this would impact individual bloggers less than the platform provider. Participation is voluntary and you don't keep (or even know) personally identifiable information about your visitors or commenters.
ReplyDeleteThat what I believed, but a lawyer I know who knows the internet and said we need to state that we do or do not have access to specific user information. Since I don't have mailing lists, opt out or opt in, I am outside of the law, but its bestbto states so.
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