I do not have the (dutch) law at hand, do you?, but I believed this was for tracking cookies and third party cookies only. I suppose that the full implementation of this directive/law requires browser interaction and ultimately intervention by MS/Google/Mozilla and others.
Firefox has a number of privacy options for standard cookies and a number of plug-ins about cookies and notable a simple one for flash cookies. It deletes flash cookies on exit of the browser. While this might not be in line with the law exactly, it fulfils the function for most user, unless you let your browser open all the time. So probably the cooky used by potlact are not so much a concern, as long as it's function is notified (site? / Help? / popup?) to the user. I suggest that Openstreet add a tab regarding privacy of it's users where these types of things are mentioned. Gert Gremmen ----------------------------------------------------- Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) Before printing, think about the environment. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:[email protected]] Verzonden: Thursday, June 23, 2011 8:32 AM Aan: Steve Bennett CC: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies On 23 June 2011 03:55, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Markus Lindholm > <[email protected]> wrote: >> But there's no need to store them on the client, as all users have to >> log in the preferences can be stored server-side. Atleast I throw away >> all cookies when I close the browser. > > So out of curiosity, the proposed law says it's ok to store user > preferences server side, but not in the browser? That doesn't make any > sense at all, from a privacy perspective. Not exactly. What the proposal says is that you need to tell people you're using a cookie and why you're using it and presumably let them know they can opt out. At which point you can probably tell them that they'll just get the default settings every time. You only need to ask them once. (though how you're going to track that without a cookie I have no idea). When you store data about a person on the server you're also supposed to tell the user you're doing that and allow them to view/delete it. This new proposal is the kind of law you get when you let people who know little about technology decide things. They somehow got the idea that only advertisers use cookies, and they use them to track people.... Mvg, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
