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."
Not the Netherlands (Score:3, Informative)
Not all cookies are targeted! (FUD ALERT) (Score:5, Informative)
This cookie law does not require consent for all cookies. Unfortunately, the media, including Slashdot continues to carry this myth. This is the spin that the advertising industry is (successfully) putting on this issue...
I requires consent for cookies that are not "strictly necessary for a service explicitly requested by the user". So session cookies are safe for example.
Consent is mainly required for TRACKING cookie.
Re:leave the EU (Score:4, Informative)
I agree 100%. It's worth adding that the bailouts that greece/ireland etc have recieved are being used to pay back (largely) french and german banks and bondholders. The bailout will then be repaid by greek/irish taxpayers.
Be in no illusion. This is not a bailout of the Greeks, but of rich German bondholders. This is why the Greeks are protesting.
Ensured? (Score:4, Informative)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
On a more helpful note I think "assured" was what you were looking for.