Comment by daedrdev

Comment by daedrdev 10 days ago

15 replies

The EU pushes heavily for consent for tracking, yet you need to track your users locations to keep your trademark, thus requiring that every company has to have a popup asking to track that data.

bcrosby95 10 days ago

IANAL, but.... you only need consent if it isn't required for your business to function. If you need to track to maintain your trademark, couldn't you argue any business with a trademark needs to track users?

I'm sure it wouldn't work in a real court, but it sounds funny in my head.

  • cantalopes 10 days ago

    You still need a consent

    • freehorse 10 days ago

      If it is based on legitimate interest, under gdpr you don't.

      • layer8 10 days ago

        You are required to inform the affected users, however.

      • aforwardslash 10 days ago

        Legitimate interest of the user, not yours. Rule of thumb, if its not a legal requirement, you need consent.

kube-system 10 days ago

Most trademark holders have much more solid ways of demonstrating their mark's use in commerce, like financial and business records.

  • marcjschmidt 10 days ago

    Right, but I think this case is interesting for the developer community as it targets specifically open-source use-cases, where you usually have neither extensive user per-country data, nor would you usually care about tracking, or have commercial offerings. This essentially means that you either cannot protect your open-source project name or have always to keep in mind to collect user per-country data, otherwise you risk getting deleted.

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    • darthwalsh 10 days ago

      Is there no privacy-preserving per-country analytics library? No need to store IP Addresses!

      • daedrdev 9 days ago

        I mean isn't storing location still requiring you to inform your users? It's not just IP that Europe's privacy regulations care about right?

prmoustache 9 days ago

You don't need that. You can provide billing addresses of your customers without tracking web access.