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Re: [ICANN-EU] protection of privacy
- To: icann-europe@fitug.de
- Subject: Re: [ICANN-EU] protection of privacy
- From: peter@schwindt-net.de (Peter Schwindt)
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:47:06 GMT
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Dear Andreas, dear list members,
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:19:53 +0200, in hamster.lists.icann-europe you
wrote:
[...]
>I take Lutz's statement about cookies to start
>a discussion about privacy.
If it's about privacy then go on...
>Cookies are legitimate and it is everybody's free decision
>to accept cookies.
>
>But, the user has no control over the data transferred
>or actions taken by cookies.
>
>In my opinion, cookies as an access restriction,
>a conditio sine qua non, to an official informational site,
>violate basic rights of privacy and data protection.
Yes, if you are forced to use cookies to get access to special site,
this _is_ a type of access restriction. But this is not a topic of
protecting your rights of privacy. And it's also not about data
protection.
Cookies _can_ be bad, as we all might know. But session variables that
are carried on in the URL aren't much better (or as you might say
"much more secure")...
Lutz is right, ask Kris Koehntopp on that topic...
Peter