ohh, alexander and other interested readers of the
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pi...il/084332.html for instance ( i cant be bothered to sign up and you dont make it easy to post one off comments, but your reading this thread as you quote it)
did you see and read the
The Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC)
DTI Consultation – The Information Commissioner’s Response
(yack, i have to split the url to stop it scrolling off the page, cut and past it back and remove the carrage returns to use)
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/privacy_and_electronic
/detailed_specialist_guides/privacy_and_electronic_communications_regulations
_dti_consultation.pdf
very interesting clarification in support of users regarding cookies, consent, and even perhaps (through a loophole that doesnt seem to state only phonelines/voice/audio communications that i can find) CLI value added services providers.
"Should service providers be under a stronger requirement to provide a full range of CLI services as proposed?
In our view, subject to any genuine technical impediments there may be, service providers should be under a clear obligation to provide the full range of CLI services that the directive requires. "