Alexander Wagner wrote:
> But did you know that for reasons of privacy it is officialy it is not
> allowed to set a cookie without asking in germany? (no one cares or even
> tries to enforce it, but thats not the point)
No, I didn't. I can see why, especially with the sneaky doubleclick
stuff (ie. cookies via their ads).
The best method would of course be that new technology (forced by more
countries enforcing some similar law as Germany) would ask the user if
it wants to announce who s/he is to the site upon entering.
I'm a bit worried about my privacy, but mostly because I hate people
earning money on MY data and my behaviour. If someone should be paid it
is me, not someone else. They push ads at me, they track my movements,
and they sell info about me?
And it seems that it isn't much of a problem since I can turn get on/off
in PHP4:) As long as there are easy workarounds I'm all for it (as with
making web pages work both on Opera, IE and Netscape). I'm just not in
for stuff if I don't know the exact basis for why I'm doing it.
Now lets see if Germany can get the rest of EU to enforce a similar law,
then perhaps some standards and practices are changed to accomodate the
user's needs in a private and non-offencive method.
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Paul K Egell-Johnsen
Utvikler/PR Manager
eZ systems as
http://ez.no/
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