I'm in European territory. For general purpose and informative sites, like a personal site, this makes no sense.
But, when you're talking about stores, web applications, entire online platforms (including advertising ones), I think you have to ask user permission to do whatever with user's data. I guess this is why EC decided to ask for opt-in.
Many sites, including Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, require registration, and you have to agree with the TOU and Privacy Policy, where usually they place the cookies TOU and policy.
How do they enforce this? I guess browsers with extensions like Firefox (eg. CS lite) would be advantaged. I remember only Chrome and Firefox with extensions and Opera's widgets.
EDIT: (some conspiracy) could this be a move against IE? (ActiveX is discouraged)
But, when you're talking about stores, web applications, entire online platforms (including advertising ones), I think you have to ask user permission to do whatever with user's data. I guess this is why EC decided to ask for opt-in.
Many sites, including Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, require registration, and you have to agree with the TOU and Privacy Policy, where usually they place the cookies TOU and policy.
How do they enforce this? I guess browsers with extensions like Firefox (eg. CS lite) would be advantaged. I remember only Chrome and Firefox with extensions and Opera's widgets.
EDIT: (some conspiracy) could this be a move against IE? (ActiveX is discouraged)