People complained that cookies were being used by advertisers to track them.
The EU decided to take action by mandating that companies make it visible when this was happening, in the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications[1].
Since it's technically impossible to allow the benefits of cookies without opening privacy holes, I don't really know what else privacy campaigners were hoping to achieve.
The EU decided to take action by mandating that companies make it visible when this was happening, in the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications[1].
Since it's technically impossible to allow the benefits of cookies without opening privacy holes, I don't really know what else privacy campaigners were hoping to achieve.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electr...