[thelist] Fw: EU to ban cookies?

[Richard Smith]

Im not sure if anyone should take this seriously but check it out:

 - - -  Taken from an article in the Sydney Morning Herald

> The cookie ban is included in draft legislation following a major report
> into data protection.
> According to the report, backed by the EU Citizens' Freedoms and Rights,
> Justice and Home Affairs Committee last month, the use of cookies by
> companies is an infringement on personal privacy and therefore a human
> rights violation under the European Convention for the Protection of Human
> Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
> "So-called cookies, spyware, web bugs, hidden identifiers and other
similar
> devices that enter the users' terminal equipment without their explicit
> knowledge or explicit consent in order to gain access to information, to
> store hidden information or to trace the activities of the user may
> seriously intrude the privacy of these users," the report said.
> "The use of such devices should therefore be prohibited unless the
explicit,
> well-informed and freely given consent of the user concerned has been
> obtained."
>
>
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>     Richard Smith
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