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New EU Net Rules Set To Make Cookies Crumble

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 9, 2011 @05:08PM from the covering-your-tracks dept.

NickstaDB writes "From the BBC article: 'From 25 May, European laws dictate that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files called "cookies." These files are widely used to help users navigate faster around sites they visit regularly. Businesses are being urged to sort out how they get consent so they can keep on using cookies.'"

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Re:Thanks EU by mrcaseyj · 2011-03-09 17:24 · Score: 5, Interesting

IPv6 will give almost everybody practically static addresses, the ultimate undeleteable cookie. So the EU regulation will be futile very soon.
Re:Thanks EU by Narcocide · 2011-03-09 18:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

You got modded flamebait but in reality you've understated the situation quite significantly. When the feds come to bust a private host for something they usually take everything in the room that is even plugged into the same power line and all the networking hardware out to the wall, then they leave it up to the owners of the hardware to litigate for return of their property.