[Building Sakai] EU Cookie law

David Horwitz david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
Tue Apr 24 08:19:06 PDT 2012


Hi

On 04/24/2012 05:08 PM, Adam Marshall wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arWJA0jVPAc
>
> Has anybody in the Euro community done any thinking about the new well-thought-out-and-totally-reasonable-oh-yes EU cookie law?
>
> By all accounts one can use cookies if they are strictly necessary for a service but not if they're used for tracking.
>
> I was wondering if anybody had done any analysis of what cookies sakai uses and then categorised them to show which are deemed strictly necessary.
>
> I assume that site stats uses cookies. Would we consider the site stats tool strictly necessary?
>
Site stats uses the data collected by Sakai (so based on login) so it 
doesn't use cookies. Its legal complience here would be with general 
user tracking data collection.

D


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