More German Anti-Tech Lunacy

[Dreadnaught]

The reason most people violate the UK law is it's arcane and leads to a bad user experience. Should everyone see a pop-up dialog indicating if they mind having a cookie placed every time they visit a site? Because TWF would have to as well.

And, we all know, every technology has its counterbalance. Today's "ever cookie" is tomorrow's regular cookie (notwithstanding that the multiple-destination cookies could be considered a virus).

But your ideas about Facebook are so very...European. So what if you can identity someone in a photo on Facebook? How is that substantially different from a printed photo caption? There is no privacy issue here. This is a curtailment of free speech masquerading as "privacy" and "data protection".

[Ominous Gamer]

How is that substantially different from a printed photo caption?

You mean the one you would hand write on a photo and stick in your photo album at home, compared to the autotagging facial recongition can do and then advertise (possibly publicly) to all of the users friends via status and wall updates?

and you're ignoring the larger picture of wanting the general public to stay so up to date and informed about the workings of the internet and the latest exploits that they should be able to take on and protect themselves from the companies that base their entire business model around exploiting their software and hardware weaknesses. Then again, you didn't actually reply to how incognito mode has been rendered useless.
but its interesting how you draw a line between viruses, even nonharmful ones, and data harvesting from browsing habits.