Google recently announced that third-party cookies (cookies which are used to track you by other websites or companies than the website you visit) will disappear in Chrome by 2022. Unfortunately, this does not mean the end of our tracking online, but the rise of alternative tracking methods, such as local storage.

Cookies allow websites to recognize your computer as you browse the web and remember things about you and your browsing history.

We tried claiming our personal data from Nike without success

On March 6th 2020, we had the pleasure to be invited as speakers at the Open Belgium 2020 confaerence, a community driven conference about Open Data and Open Knowledge.

How would we feel if unknown merchants knew us by our name, kept a log of all our visits, trace of all our transactions and whatever information they could glean about us, all of this without telling? But isn’t this exactly what we allow for every company or organization on the internet when we blindly consent to cookies?

These are the most common GDPR complaints