Cookies, anyone?
Not without my consent...
The European Parliament passed the following resolution concerning
cookies:
2(a) Member States shall prohibit the use of electronic
communications networks to store information or to gain
access to information stored in the terminal equipment of
a subscriber or user without the prior, explicit consent
of the subscriber or user concerned. This shall not prevent
any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of
carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication
over an electronic communications network.
Justification:
Terminal equipment of users of electronic communications
networks and any information stored on such equipment are
part of the private sphere of the users requiring protection
under the European Convention for the Protection of Human
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. So-called cookies, spyware,
web bugs, hidden identifiers and other similar devices that
enter the users' terminal equipment without their explicit
knowledge or explicit consent in order to gain access to information,
to store hidden information or to trace the activities of
the user may seriously intrude the privacy of these users.
The use of such devices should therefore be prohibited unless
the explicit, well-informed and freely given consent of the
user concerned has been obtained.
This amendment was adopted in plenary on September 6 2001
(ex. amendment 29).
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