Tracking without consent is illegal in Europe, regardless of the method. Alternative tracking methods are not workarounds to get around the law; they are only workarounds in trying not to be caught.
Tracking without consent is illegal. This is a clever way to get absolutely reamed, because you’re not only in breach of data protection laws you’re actively trying to obfuscate it.
Yeah nice try. Law makers are not that stupid. Any way of storing personal data is subject to this regulation.
And before you try the next thing, personal data is everything that can be linked to a specific user, e.g. IP addresses have been ruled to be personal data, some uuid that helps you identify a user as well.
People should really read the law, and/or at least literate commentary on it instead of assuming things or repeating what someone else assumed.
This is definitely not personal data. The piece of information is not linked to an individual and cannot be used to identify an individual (not the same as a 'user'), not least because it is not unique to each visitor: According to the article all first requests get the same 'last-modified' date, same for all second requests, etc.
Still, this stores data in the browser in a way that might be deemed a technology similar to a cookie, and therefore this might still fall within the various cookie laws, but this is completely outside of personal data regs.
