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New EU Net Rules Set To Make Cookies Crumble

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Thanks EU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Great - what the internet needs is more regulation.

    Thanks EU.

  2. EU = make things harder by syousef · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does the EU do anything apart from make things harder for people? This effectively means no anonymous cookies. I'm guessing it's more about controling and monitoring citizens than about protecting their privacy. The thing is there are lots of legitimate uses for anonymous or one time cookies for which consent.isn't practical, so if this flies, it will detract from the Internet as we know it. And not just in the intended ways.

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