> Without even asking whether the site can use local storage?
Where did you see this in the article? I had some recollection that Firefox at least did require asking the user.
Where did you see this in the article? I had some recollection that Firefox at least did require asking the user.
People think the GDPR is just about cookies, but it is agnostic of the technology used.
Maximum fines: €20 million, or 4% of the company's total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year — whichever is higher.
And informed consent means they need to know what data you collect/store for which purposes and there needs to be an equally easy to select No-Option.
The stored data is not related to the user at all. The problem is that the website gets to silently write 20GB to the user's disk.