Germany Passes Sweeping Cyberspace Legislation 01/06/97 (fwd)
BONN, GERMANY, 1997 JAN 6 (NB) -- By Sylvia Dennis. The German government passed a major round of legislation in the runup to Christmas that aims at regulating the Internet and protecting user privacy. No surprise there.... {} The law also prohibits the use of "cookies," software applets that trace a user's path across the Internet and recording the data they view. This is, to me! -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 wb8foz@netcom.com wrote:
The law also prohibits the use of "cookies," software applets that trace a user's path across the Internet and recording the data they view.
This is, to me!
I haven't had time to search for any more information on the law, but if this law bans _all_ cookies, then this is just another example of the technological cluelessness that exists in various governments. I don't agree with any restrictions on cookies, but if there are going to be any, then the least they could do is allow cookies if the HTML page indicates somewhere on it that it is sending a cookie. This would prevent companies like "Doubleclick" from gathering information, but would permit "legitimate" uses. Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMtMP0SzIPc7jvyFpAQF3wAf/XzJZ3RYJj0kuci1bTJwMoXvAw/OJEoMD ncYsvr58t/kPIFsbBs+bgCSgiFXDHACOZLqlCeRFjgkOF+ljY0Syqw2g4iNoczo/ LQ17NYplMQv4u0sxrCQxvPK0xNddO5zdy9fmSTJecMtGXIaZ6iTqiX0smNAD0nED a/clBz6zbI+DUBXVyaX7Gmn7nOQJ3ySTAycWGRoU5CkcSsbI3TjHTMiqyEw/oRst Xio8q9GS0/+K4BtZGP8Evn7meHEjv4yL1gucLREtgqgLLj1AQUn3jKHzORGFQ2Fx 6mrTSnRBjLzE3xcBr/r0YxHIEnqy78xz10UuMIGas7DEfFNyfHGejw== =tCA6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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