Cookies - why are some people legally obliged to turn them off?

[Craig Duncan]

I just went to a site in the Netherlands http://www.tno.nl and got this pop up message.

Does anyone know if this is becoming national issue in any countries, or just the politics of particular organizations.

TNO is legally obliged to turn off cookies on its website. Cookies are, however, useful to improve your ease of use of tno.nl. 
For instance:

• by making it easy to share content on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn;
• by using statistics to make the website better.

Below you can indicate whether you want to accept the use of cookies. 
If you do not want to accept the use of cookies you can close this box by clicking on X in the top right-hand corner.

Thanks,

Craig

[Christophe Noualhat]

Hi Craig,

Happened to me on another website as well where I was given a choice of accepting or not accepting cookies, with no influence on the possibility to browse the site or not.. .Seemed like a policy of this particular site but i have to say I enjoyed beeing given a choice !

C

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[Yvan Marques]

Hi,

This is due to one new regulation on privacy for European website sites.

you might find more informations here :

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_guide/cookies.aspx

But I eared that they're talking about it again because looks like it won't work as expected.

Regards,

-- Yvan

[Louis Jagoe]

"It's a bit like banning all music to prevent another Justin Bieber
album from coming out."

See this two-and-half minute video for an entertaining and easy to
understand explanation:

The stupid EU cookie law (and why it should die)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hLmX9FX2KA

--
Louie Jagoe
Chief Executive Officer
St. Noble Company S.A.R.L.
Geneva, Switzerland
www.stnoble.com

[C. Janzen]

Britain has a similar policy, I believe.

On 28 févr. 2013, at 10:08, Jeroen van Dalen <jeroen....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Craig,
>
> This has been a big issue in The Netherlands for about a year now..
>
> Dutch government chose to implement a very strict interpretation of the EU regulations as a national law... Every website in The Netherlands is legally obliged to ask permission for using cookies.. But they are talking about reversing it now, because it annoys people and it has a negative effect on privacy. (after a while everybody just clicks okay without even reading what they're agreeing to...)
>
> I havent seen it in any other country yet...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeroen