Paul Boddie wrote:
>>Clearly, there's some education about cookies required in the inner circles of the European Union's bureaucracy, but given the lack of convenient control over cookie handling given to users of some of the more popular browsers, combined with the nature of the groups lobbying against further restrictions, it's not exactly surprising that the EU is considering a directive. I believe there's already been legislation passed in the UK concerning the usage of cookies with respect to privacy and data protection.<< The situation is actually more pressing would meet the eye. I've come across situations in the US government where cookies are absolutely not allowed as a result of individual or collective department/agency policy. So, it's very possible to have cookies forbidden by governments even if a law to this effect is has not been passed. No amount of education over cookies helps in this situation. Policies are made to avoid the appearance, however unwarrented, of intruding into privacy. The problem, in the case of the US government, is one of avoiding the appearance of "Big Brother." The individual administrators understand the cookie issue, but since the population at large does not, they don't want to stick their heads out on this issue. ...Edmund. _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
