Re: Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

From: Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:11:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions
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Alexander Wagner wrote: > But did you know that for reasons of privacy it is officialy it is not > allowed to set a cookie without asking in germany? (no one cares or even > tries to enforce it, but thats not the point) No, I didn't. I can see why, especially with the sneaky doubleclick stuff (ie. cookies via their ads). The best method would of course be that new technology (forced by more countries enforcing some similar law as Germany) would ask the user if it wants to announce who s/he is to the site upon entering. I'm a bit worried about my privacy, but mostly because I hate people earning money on MY data and my behaviour. If someone should be paid it is me, not someone else. They push ads at me, they track my movements, and they sell info about me? And it seems that it isn't much of a problem since I can turn get on/off in PHP4:) As long as there are easy workarounds I'm all for it (as with making web pages work both on Opera, IE and Netscape). I'm just not in for stuff if I don't know the exact basis for why I'm doing it. Now lets see if Germany can get the rest of EU to enforce a similar law, then perhaps some standards and practices are changed to accomodate the user's needs in a private and non-offencive method. -- Paul K Egell-Johnsen Utvikler/PR Manager eZ systems as http://ez.no/

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