[tor-talk] [OT[ New web-cookie policies on internet

[Michael Wolf]

On 5/29/2014 9:18 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> Anyone else noticing slashdot, google, and a few
> other big ones i can't recall, now throwing annoying
> popups with 'hey, we're using cookies, click to agree
> to this' ? What new legal groupthink bs is behind this?

It has to do with some law in the EU[1] that apparently isn't
enforced[2] (at least in the UK).  It is actually a few years old.

-- Mike

[1]http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_guide/cookies

[2]http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/