DeletedUser1121
When you think you have seen it all, they always seem to surprise you...
The Dutch government did it again, they created the most useless and impossible law in the history of the internet.
All of this is done to protect the privacy of the visitors of the website, which is ordered by the European Union in e-Privacy Directive (2009/136/EC) (pdf alert) which in general is a good thing, but the way they did it is so bad it just makes you want to cry if you are a web designer who aims on Dutch visitors. For example, the law only focusses on cookies while with HTML5 you can store multiple MB's on a local hard drive which can contain far more then just a simple cookie.
The best solution imho would be to add a block option in browsers. That way you only need to talk to a dozen companies instead of millions of web designers..
Now, here is my question to debate:
Privacy on the internet, is it fiction? Do we need to protect it? Is it up to the governments to make these rules since internet is not restricted to single country laws?
And to close with some funny notes:
Image of the official website from Dutch government containing tracking cookies
Image of website of the regulating organisation OPTA which is tasked with controlling and fining the illegal use of cookies which uses cookies without a warning
sources:
https://www.privacyassociation.org/...aw_requires_prior_consent_from_internet_users
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110746/opta--nederlandse-cookiewet-geldt-voor-hele-wereld.html (in Dutch)
The Dutch government did it again, they created the most useless and impossible law in the history of the internet.
So in general it comes down that every website (not only the Dutch ones, but ALL of them) need to ask the visitors from Holland if they wish to accept the use of cookies (needs to be done in Dutch). If not, they can be fined by the Dutch regulators OPTA, who already already acknowledge that it is impossible to check each website out there so they are going to pick the big and easy sites first (sites like big national news sites and stuff like that).
All of this is done to protect the privacy of the visitors of the website, which is ordered by the European Union in e-Privacy Directive (2009/136/EC) (pdf alert) which in general is a good thing, but the way they did it is so bad it just makes you want to cry if you are a web designer who aims on Dutch visitors. For example, the law only focusses on cookies while with HTML5 you can store multiple MB's on a local hard drive which can contain far more then just a simple cookie.
The best solution imho would be to add a block option in browsers. That way you only need to talk to a dozen companies instead of millions of web designers..
Now, here is my question to debate:
Privacy on the internet, is it fiction? Do we need to protect it? Is it up to the governments to make these rules since internet is not restricted to single country laws?
And to close with some funny notes:
Image of the official website from Dutch government containing tracking cookies
Image of website of the regulating organisation OPTA which is tasked with controlling and fining the illegal use of cookies which uses cookies without a warning
sources:
https://www.privacyassociation.org/...aw_requires_prior_consent_from_internet_users
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110746/opta--nederlandse-cookiewet-geldt-voor-hele-wereld.html (in Dutch)
