The EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive seems to be protecting Europe from big, bad, cookies.

And anybody who uses Google Analytics.

My opinion: it's a stupid regulation. More at apatheticlemming.blogspot.com/2009/05/anti-cookie-law-eu-protects-subjects.... (links to The Register op-ed in my post)

Still, it could be worse: The EU leaders could have insisted that all long-distance communications be done by carrier pigeon.

To make this a discussion: Is it a good idea to have neo-Luddite technophobes make up rules for the rest of us?

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