[OSM-talk] Flash cookies

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 23 June 2011 03:55, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Markus Lindholm
> <markus.lindholm at gmail.com> 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,
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