From the article: "European officials are mounting a new push to clarify—and
enforce—rules involving small Internet files that can be used to track users,
exposing the slow progress of Europe's plan to implement far-reaching privacy
rules.
Digital-privacy agencies from the European Union's member countries hashed
out new recommendations late last week for how to apply European data-privacy
laws to so-called cookies, the common Internet files that websites use to
remember things about users. The cookies can also be used by central
aggregators to track users' online behavior on the Web.
The new guidelines, expected to be released as early as this week,
regulators say, more clearly distinguish between relatively innocuous cookies
that websites can deploy without users' permission, and those for which
regulators want websites to get user consent. Likely to stay on the
consent-needed list: the cookies that are used to track users' Web browsing in
order to show the users targeted ads." Read more
