Along similar lines, there are EU requirements regarding the collection of cookie data, introduced by the EU, which affects all EU-based projects.
The UK's take on it is guided by this doc: http://www.ico.gov.uk/.../advice_on_the_new_cookies_regulations.pdf Essentially, any application that stores cookie data needs to inform the user of what they store and the purposes to which the data will be put. In the UK we are told that these rules will begin being enforced in a couple of months. Here is a site that seeks to address the issue in a practical manner: http://www.civicuk.com/cookie-law/index Jonathan Miller System Administrator Climate Prediction dot Net, University of Oxford Tel: 01865 610680 _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
