Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 39912
interpreted = N
texte = dale wrote: > > Europe Goes After the Cookie > Reuters > 6:20 a.m. Oct. 31, 2001 PST > > LONDON -- The cookie, a simplistic identification tag that most Internet > users unknowingly carry when surfing the Web, runs the risk of being > outlawed under a proposed privacy directive from the European Commission. >And the European authorities can pound sand trying to enforce this. Are they planning on setting up mandatory proxy servers throughout Europe and filtering all cookies? Are they planning on highing border control agents for the 'Net? Talk about the Nanny State mentality!They don't even differentiate between session cookies (which is all I use), and site cookies, and cross-site tracking cookies. The latter are evil, the second are sometimes nice (think repeated logins without having to type a password), and the first are required (AFAIAC).John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
  2. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
  3. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
  4. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Paul Uttermohlen 2001)
  5. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
  6. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
  7. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
  8. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
  9. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
  10. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Glenn Busbin 2001)
  11. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Bob Minor 2001)
  12. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (Alex McCombie 2001)
  13. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (dale 2001)
  14. Re: Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (John Peacock 2001)
  15. Heads up, cookies *may* be outlawed in Europe (dale 2001)
dale wrote: > > Europe Goes After the Cookie > Reuters > 6:20 a.m. Oct. 31, 2001 PST > > LONDON -- The cookie, a simplistic identification tag that most Internet > users unknowingly carry when surfing the Web, runs the risk of being > outlawed under a proposed privacy directive from the European Commission. >And the European authorities can pound sand trying to enforce this. Are they planning on setting up mandatory proxy servers throughout Europe and filtering all cookies? Are they planning on highing border control agents for the 'Net? Talk about the Nanny State mentality!They don't even differentiate between session cookies (which is all I use), and site cookies, and cross-site tracking cookies. The latter are evil, the second are sometimes nice (think repeated logins without having to type a password), and the first are required (AFAIAC).John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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