On 22 Jun 2011, at 10:54, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: > Some extra information for the non-Dutch: > 'Recently' is this monday. NL stands for The Netherlands. > > Every Dutch IT company is protesting the way this ridiculous law is > introduced and it has not yet been fully approved yet. > > But since Openstreetmap is not a Dutch company I don't see why they > should adhere to our laws.
It's presumably an implementation of an EU-wide directive. [1] It's certainly an issue with the UK [2][3] and pretty much everyone seems to be unprepared, which puts OSM firmly in the mainstream ;-) Damian [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electronic_Communications> [2] <http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/library/Privacy_and_electronic/Practical_application/advice_on_the_new_cookies_regulations.pdf> [3] <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13345545> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
