I made you a cookie (DPC writes to boards and asks dafuq?)

MadsL

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/30806-data-commissioner-tells-80/

Some 80 websites in Ireland – including major Government departments, like the Department of Health and the Department of Finance – have been written to by the Data Protection Commissioner to explain their approach to stringent EU regulations on the use of cookies

Popular internet properties included in the letter included Adverts.ie, Boards.ie, Daft.ie, DoneDeal.ie, Eflow, Entertainment.ie, Irish Jobs, Menupages, Monster.ie, Paddy Power, Ryanair, Ticketmaster and Pigsback.

So, boards. You made us a cookie, did you eated it?

Gongoozler

Yep EU regulations say that any site that uses cookies, has to notify the user of the site. something like 90% of Irish sites don't do this. But it hasn't been enforced either. RTE only recently threw it up.

MadsL

Is anyone unaware that boards uses cookies?

There is even a cookie policy page..
http://www.boards.ie/content/privacy#cookie-policy

Wacker The Attacker

Whats "asks dafuq"?

partyatmygaff

I was wondering why so many sites started making a big deal of asking about placing cookies over the past few months. Usually, they'd hide it away in a small checkbox somewhere.

Gongoozler

MadsL wrote: »

Is anyone unaware that boards uses cookies?

There is even a cookie policy page..
http://www.boards.ie/content/privacy#cookie-policy

As there is for many sites that use cookies, if you read up on it, the site is meant to make it very obvious for the user that they use cookies, and state what type (I think). The point is that nobody reads all that legal jibberish partly because it's hidden a lot of the time, and because it's in legal / tech jargon that the lay person may not understand - this doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to be told their data is being tracked.

Mint Sauce

Over 5 years, and 14,000 posts, and not even a choc chip one for all my efforts.

My name is URL

It's a stupid requirement by the EU. Virtually all sites use cookies... if people need that pointed out to them then they're unlikely to take much heed of or understand any notice posted by a website regarding its use of them.

franktheplank

Who wants to play ookie cookie?

NegativeCreep

Didn't know and I don't care. Dunno why people get so hung up about cookies n stuff on the net.

notnumber

whats the big deal with cookies? they are as a sweet sounding as the name.I mean can someone explain the danger.Far as I understand they are things such as logins and preferences so when u visit the site next time the info is there being read back from your hard drive.

http://www.bitdefender.com/support/what-are-cookie-threats-1.html

Phill Ewinn

More attempts to gain control of something that doesn't belong to them.

*Gain control
*Sell a stake in that control to someone else
*Profit.

Simples. Knobjockies in the US, EU or any where else want what's yours.

MadsL

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Whats "asks dafuq"?

Very well, (adjusts monocle) The Data Protection Commissioner was recently in communication with boards to inquire as to the current situation viz-a-viz baked goods.