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Originally Posted by kt88man
Concerning these phorged cookies that Richard Clayton refers to (B 20-25)...
User 'Mark H' over on the BT forum makes quite an interesting point.
http://www.beta.bt.com/bta/forums/th...rt=37&tstart=0
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http://www.beta.bt.com/bta/forums/th...rt=37&tstart=0 Mark H wrote:
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Another thing with the cookie situation, they forge cookies for sites, without the sites explicit consent. As others have pointed out, this leaves a situation that sites who don't normally set cookies can/will have them set on their behalf.
How much trouble could this cause for websites that don't set cookies and include a statement in their privacy statement or policy saying they don't and won't set cookies?
Webmaster: "We don't set cookies, we don't need to, and don't want to."
Website User: "You are lying, every time I visit your site you set a cookie."
Webmaster: "No, we don't, there's something wrong here obviously, can you provide proof please?"
Website User: provides screenshots and examples of the cookie "See, I told you that your site was setting cookies."
Exactly who has broken the privacy policy set by that website at this point?
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This is a very good point. Also - is a cookie copyright? If I, as a website site owner state that my site is copyright - surely this includes the cookie? So, by them messing with it - are they in breach of my copyright?
Alex @ Phorm - could you answer this for us?