mrRon

what about all the shopping carts etc that use php sessions which store the session reference on a users browser before a user has even registered an account or logged in but apart from this how do you police the new laws , I mean if I live in the USA or somewhere outside the eu , and I access a website hosted on servers within the EU that require me to accept cookies , do I have to be notified ? If my website is hosted on servers located outside of the EU but I live in a country within the EU , must I notify people they need to accept cookies for a particular action . its all so vague and really cannot be policed , again more wasted money on eurocratic decisions.

yes I read the article within the post . here is a quote from it "here’s the bottom line: under the rules, which cover the whole of the European Union, websites must ask visitors for their consent before they can install most cookies." This is ridiculous as it would require a pop-up or something on almost every website in the "world" preventing immediate surfing of that website until consent has been given by the visitor to allow information to be stored on their browser. It doesn't make any sense why they would want to do this , it seems to me to be a bunch of people in Brussels with nothing better to do than to sit around making peoples lives as miserable as possible wait and see next they'll be controlling the type of content you are allowed to download and eventually what Browser you use !! you might not think it , but this is facism at work .

sorry , I had to reply to this , firstly you need cookies enabled in your Browser to successfully navigate almost every website on the Internet including Google what is this EU cookie law , is the default for everyone to browse the internet with cookies disabled which means not being able to really Browse at all , Its gone too far this EU thing , controlling every aspect of peoples lives , no doubt the eurocrats thinking up these laws have no idea of how websites and scripting languages work.