Five EU Countries Taken To Court For Failing To Implement Cookie Law 130
concertina226 writes "The European Commission announced on Thursday that it has asked the European Court of Justice to impose fines on Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia for not transposing binding telecoms rules into their national laws. The official deadline for doing so was 25 May last year. These telecoms rules are aimed at protecting users' privacy online. They also require companies to notify users about any data breach without undue delay and to allow customers to switch fixed or mobile phone operators without changing their phone number, within one working day. But the main sticking point in the telecoms package appears to be the requirement for Web companies to obtain 'explicit consent' from Internet users before storing cookies."
Re:leave the EU (Score:5, Funny)
Greece borrows a fuckton of money, pisses it up the wall and then throws a massive sulk when asked to pay it back.
I think the sulk is not even for having to pay it back but for being required to follow a number of rules that might make them stop pissing more fucktons of money up the wall.
And in related news (Score:5, Funny)
Bloomberg wants to outlaw cookies in NYC