Art 10: Issue 3 - cookies

Here are the latest suggested changes (the guidelines text has changed quite
a lot so please check):

Text for 2.3.2.7.
-----------------
Add:
User agents evaluating cookies SHOULD apply the results of a preference
match on the cookie's policy before setting the cookie.

Text for guidelines
-------------------
Certain jurisdictions view the storage of cookies on a user's hard drive as
an act of data processing. In such jurisdictions (e.g. the EU), policies
should always be evaluated before a cookie is set and cookies should not be
stored unless the cookie's policy is found to comply with the user's
preferences.

-------------------------------------
Giles Hogben
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen Cybersecurity
New technologies for Combatting Fraud Unit
TP 267
Via Enrico Fermi 1
Ispra 
21020 VA
Italy

giles.hogben@jrc.it
tel:+390332789187
fax:+390332789576
 

Received on Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:10:20 UTC