It's a terrible thing, good only for lawyers. Nobody understands what cookies are anyway, most people think they are tiny little programs that steal their priva

It's a terrible thing, good only for lawyers. Nobody understands what cookies are anyway, most people think they are tiny little programs that steal their privacy in some magical way. And nobody cares about that level of technical detail either, and why would they? If the gov't is so keen on regulating Web stuff, they should have a regulatory body that reviews and audits Facebook's and Google's internal handling of user data, to make sure thay actually don't abuse them secretly. This cookie thing doesn't make any difference for privacy protection at all.