Yes and I never said that the consumer is educated. I said that there is a need to make him/her educated so that there is an understanding that bits / parts of this supposedly annoying legislation may actually act as a safeguard against potentially adverse or malicious use of his/her online behavioural patterns.
And I would question why this legislation is annoying and useless because the ICO is suddenly waking up to the enforcement side of things. I am sure that this sudden enforcement and implementation focus has got nothing to do with public opinion, who remain completely unaware or 'illiterate' about this legislation.
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From: Ian Griffiths [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09/29/2012 01:58 AM CET
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Friday food for thought - Cookies
I may have to respectfully completely disagree with you there.
The consumer at large is not able to make an educated decision. I wouldn't
even expect them to - they don't truly know what the cookie is doing, they
don't in most cases need to care, and furthermore, they shouldn't even need
to change that point of view in order to protect their own privacy.
One of the only reasons that cookies are so essential to the vast majority
of session-led web sites is due to shortcomings in the protocols which
administer the delivery of the sites, and the reason that much of this new
compliance falls in to the 'annoying' category is that its actually entirely
necessary and you'd never be without it unless you wanted to deliberately
hinder your browsing experience.
The very fact you need to store the answer somewhere should have rung alarm
bells with the people drafting the legislation.
The ICO guidance for me also falls seriously short of offering an
explanation on a sufficiently technical level about what is acceptable and
what is not. Considering its written for people who are deploying web sites
which employ these technologies, it is fairly vague on the exact issues.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandeep Das" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Friday food for thought - Cookies
I think it is a matter of putting forward an option in front of the
consumer and asking him / her to take an educated decision. Previously,
our IP addresses, online behaviour etc were being monitored and evaluated
without our consent and knowledge.
The moment we develop a higher degree of understanding about this and also
acquire the consequential 'sensitivity', we should start seeing more of
the 'thank goodness for the cookie laws' type of exaltations.
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