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Ok, so the law makes cookies illegal. What about browser fingerprinting? Does the law say anything about that? (I did a quick Google search and was unable to fi

Ok, so the law makes cookies illegal. What about browser fingerprinting? Does the law say anything about that? (I did a quick Google search and was unable to find the text of the law) If browser fingerprinting or other covert tracking devices aren't spelled out in the law, this isn't going to mean squat. If you're not familiar with this technology, go to http://panopticlick.eff.org/ http://panopticlick.eff.org/ and see just how unique you look. You'll be surprised.

Silhouette 15y ago
This is the pinprick in the balloon: the rules relate to storing information on your visitor's system, not to anything they send you anyway that you keep on your own server. Given that (for reasons I've never understood) most browsers are quite happy to send a near-unique set of data every time they request a page, I expect a whole bunch of tools will rapidly rise to prominence over the next few months for precisely this purpose. Edit: Also, the law does not make cookies illegal. There is way too much FUD in the discussions of this topic. The rules are about restricting cookie use (a) without explicit user consent and (b) to do things that aren't necessary to provide a service the user has requested. The basic position is not unreasonable, they're just perhaps not going about it in the most helpful way. But most of the vehement criticism is coming either from people who don't understand or from people who have built a business model by doing unsavoury things and don't like that they just got spanked for it.