EU May Outlaw Cookies

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 31, 2001 @06:48AM from the use-tasty-apples-instead dept.

Millennium writes: "According to Yahoo News, The European Commission is considering a privacy directive which, among other things, completely bans the use of cookies. Forgive me for saying so, but considering all the legitimate uses of cookies, isn't banning them outright going just a bit too far?" Update: 10/31 19:21 GMT by M : The submitter's write-up is wrong. Read the story. Keep in mind, as usual, that a "news" story whose sole source is an executive with an agenda to push is unlikely to portray the situation accurately.

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the wrong solution for the wrong problem by fetta · 2001-10-31 07:09 · Score: 4, Interesting

The EU appears headed toward a classic error - they haven't defined the problem correctly. Instead of asking "how can we protect the privacy of our citizens" they asked "how can we prevent organizations from using this specific technology to invade our citizens privacy."

Whoever proposed this absolute ban on cookies clearly has never done any kind of web development. Sheesh.

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