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I wonder if placing a cookie on my computer without prior written consent constitutes "unauthorized access". Class action anyone?
by 08-15 10y ago
I wonder if placing a cookie on my computer without prior written consent constitutes "unauthorized access". Class action anyone?
- Sean1708 10y agoIn Britain it's illegal for a website to store a cookie without informing you, so I have a feeling someone may have already tried this.
- AstralStorm 10y agoLikewise in EU.
- Silhouette 10y agoNo, it isn't. That's not what the infamous "cookie law" says, nor how it's been interpreted in practice by official regulators across the EU.
- Sean1708 10y agoWhat does it actually say?
- Silhouette 10y agoThe details are probably too complicated for an HN comment, but one point that sometimes gets missed is that you normally don't have the same disclosure/consent obligations for cookies that are essential to the normal operation of the site like login tokens or tracking what's in a shopping basket.
- roywiggins 10y agoIt's your own browser that interprets the header, saves the cookie, and passes it back to sites you visit. Passing a "here's a cookie" header to your machine doesn't, on its own, do anything. Your browser has to actively parse and store it.
- cgriswald 10y agoBy the same token, my sending an HTTP request to a server doesn't, on its own, do anything. Their server has to actively parse the request and send data.