Europe's top law-making body is working to bring its websites into line with the cookie-tracking laws it enforces on other entities.
Legally, the European Commission and the other European Union institutions, such as the Parliament, are not bound by the same data protection rules that apply to commercial companies.
Under the ePrivacy Directive, which was updated in 2009, Web companies must obtain "explicit consent" from Internet users before installing cookies on a computer to remember login details and other preferences relating to a particular website.
The only exception from the consent rule is if cookies are "strictly necessary" for a service explicitly requested by the user, for example, when a user clicks the "add to basket" button to buy goods from a website or asks it to remember language preferences.
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Legally, the European Commission and the other European Union institutions, such as the Parliament, are not bound by the same data protection rules that apply to commercial companies.
Under the ePrivacy Directive, which was updated in 2009, Web companies must obtain "explicit consent" from Internet users before installing cookies on a computer to remember login details and other preferences relating to a particular website.
The only exception from the consent rule is if cookies are "strictly necessary" for a service explicitly requested by the user, for example, when a user clicks the "add to basket" button to buy goods from a website or asks it to remember language preferences.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Reported by PC World 8 hours ago.