  The 'cookie law' is a privacy trainwreck  By now, UK internet
users are probably familiar with major sites asking them to
consent to the use of website cookies. This is prompted by the
'cookie law' (aka "Directive 2002/58 on Privacy and Electronic
Communications", otherwise known as the E-Privacy Directive),
which is proving a privacy trainwreck. Theoretically, the
Directive was a good idea - a method of preventing companies
secretly following a user from site to site across the web.
However, ill-executed law can be worse than no law at all, and
the UK's regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office has
made a hash of its implementation.  The current process
encourages users to click 'yes' on a popup without reading it,
just to make it go away.Individuals should be in control of
their privacy, but they should not have to make decisions about
it proactively on every website they visit through a nag on the
screen. Just as with terms of service agreements that everyone
'agrees to' without a second thought,