[OSM-talk] Cookies on OSM

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 07/11/12 14:03, David Earl wrote:
> I am (I hope not naively!) assuming that OSM wouldn't indulge in any
> intrusive cookie tracking which would require explicit consent.

I believe OSM uses "Piwik" which is something like Google Analytics but 
without giving the data to a third party. That's probably the reason you 
are seeing this "pk" cookie.

I don't know if that requires explicit consent. It's not much more than 
looking at log files really but I'm not up to date on legislation.

(TBH I've seen a lot of "is it ok if we set a cookie" popups on UK web 
sites recently but none on German sites so I'm not sure if this is 
really an EU thing or just UK? Or UK being first in adopting some EU law 
into national law maybe, improbable as it sounds?)

Bye
Frederik

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