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You are not wrong. Some examples: A login for your site needs no concent. A session to store some status-message to a user ("comment posted!") is allowed just f
by berkes 16y ago
You are not wrong. Some examples: A login for your site needs no concent. A session to store some status-message to a user ("comment posted!") is allowed just fine. But Google (analytics) must provide a warning before it is allowed to track people, because it tracks people across domains and sites.
edit: I wrote opt-in but meant to say "provide a warning"
- jkent 16y agoGoogle Analytics does not track user behaviour across domains and sites, unless those domains and sites are specifically linked. Google Analytics uses a 1st-party cookie set by the website that runs it. http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html#HowGAUsesCookies http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConcep...
- Silhouette 16y agoGoogle Analytics is a third party service that is tracking users' behaviour around the Internet, quite possibly without their knowledge or consent. It doesn't matter what the original site operator can see. Google can see everything. This is exactly the kind of shady behaviour that this law is supposed to prohibit, and Google getting screwed on this point appears to be in keeping with both the letter and the spirit of the law.
- Tichy 16y agoSo how does the police distinguish between a harmless session cookie and an evil tracking cookie?