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"Io me" <monstered@mail.com>
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Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:09:57 +0800
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[HaCkmEeTiNg] Europe may ban internet cookies
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991509
The European Parliament may outlaw internet cookies on the grounds that they infringe privacy.
Cookies are software tags that are put on your computer by websites to allow them to identify you when you revisit. They are undoubtedly useful, but MEPs are concerned that surfers might unknowingly give away personal information.
"Cookies can be used to track the surfing history of the internet user, and can be used to build profiles of the user concerned," says Dutch MEP Wim van Velzen, who made the proposal. "This profile can contain much more than a login and password."
Under the new proposal, cookies count as being part of the "private sphere" of the user and so are afforded human rights protection.
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