I don’t know much about the matter, but I thought this policy was mostly about limiting tracking cookies. Let’s first ask legal@ if anything should be done at all, at this point.
On 11 Mar 2014, at 08:34, Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Manuel Schneider < > manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch> wrote: > >> The issue at hand is: EU privacy policy 95/46/EG[1] allows usage of >> cookies only if >> * the user has been informed beforehand in detail >> * the user has accepted the cookie >> * this acceptance was given freely, without doubt and through by action >> (This is the summary by the Article 29 Working Party issued in a Working >> Document 02/2013[2] on October 2nd, 2013.) >> >> An example how this is being implemented can be seen (...) here: >> * http://ec.europa.eu/justice/cookies/index_en.htm > > > That page actually sets a cookie without getting your consent first, and so > does the other EU website you have linked. Which is a good indication of > how seriously this is taken in the EU - not at all. Some content providers > show you a small banner saying "by browsing our site you accept cookies > blah blah blah" when you first visit, most don't even bother to do that. > > I doubt there is any need to change MediaWiki because of that. There are > several drop-in javascript plugins (CookieCuttr > <http://cookiecuttr.com/>, Cookie > Consent <http://demo.cookieconsent.silktide.com/> etc) which a site admin > can easily install if they want to ask for consent, but in practice that is > not expected even from major websites, whatever the (not legally binding) > recommendation from the Article 29 WP says. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
