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Comment by jjoergensen | Hacker News Reader

EU internet laws has no effect. Look at the cookie legislation that made it impossible to set cookies on peoples machines without explicit consent. What is dangerous is that one day they may be put into use. But for now they are just largely ignored.

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Actually I've already personally had the lawyers for a partner ram this one down my throat in the UK. It's absolutely ridiculous how out of their depth these legislators are. To take an idea that is readily implementable and enforceable at the browser level, but instead attempt to force every website operator in the world to implement it poorly at the server/application level is lunacy.

I'm all for privacy legislation, but in this case lawmakers' ignorance is only matched by their hubris.

Yeah, except recently our govt (Poland) got to this 'brilliant' idea http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3794883

//edit: original to translate in case the above doesn't work http://www.tvn24.pl/-1,1740364,0,1,rzad-bierze-sie-za-ciaste...

That link only gives me an empty page

Maybe that's now the only legal kind of web page in Poland?

works for me, I added another url

Uh, the cookie directive isn't being ignored.

In the UK, for example, the directive was implemented on 26 May 2011, but website owners were granted a 12 month grace period to 'get their house in order'.

From 26 May 2012 site owners will face penalties for non-compliance.

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