NODE 0ce63d72Germany Passes Sweeping Cyberspace Legislation 01/06/97 (fwd)
wb8foz@netcom.comMon, 6 Jan 1997 20:52:54 -0800 (PST)
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
NODE 45ffc4dcRe: Germany Passes Sweeping Cyberspace Legislation 01/06/97 (fwd)
"Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:05:23 -0800 (PST)
-----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-----