On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 06:46:11PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Some of my friends have been talking about the new European privacy > legislation recently, which particularly affects web sites implementing > cookies; but it occurred to me that it was probably general enough that > it might have some bearing on this, so I went and checked.
Here's one analysis by (I think) an actual lawyer: http://www.sitecompliance.co.uk/ukcnewclaws.html This particular metric feels quite similar to "Cookies which hold a unique ID to enable the website accurately to count the number of visits to the site", which this analysis reckons will require prior express consent. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
