* [email protected] (Owen DeLong) [Sun 27 May 2018, 21:42 CEST]:
The way GDPR is written, if you want to collect (and store) so much
as the IP address of the potential customer who visited your
website, you need their informed consent and you can’t require that
they consent as a condition of providing service.
You have this the wrong way around. You'll need permission to store
their IP address in logs that you keep and to inform third parties
about their visits to your site. And that is because that
information belongs to the visitor, not to you.
Basically, the regulation is so poorly written that it is utterly
nonsensical and I wonder how business in Europe intend to function
when they can’t make collecting someone’s address a condition of
allowing them to order something online.
Basically, this example is so bad that it's not even wrong.
-- Niels.
