I'm reading the EU regulation site regarding cookies on websites in EU.
http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm<p>The site states that there are certain types of cookies that the site should give the user a notice of. The site itself doesn't warn for cookies but uses multiple cookies themselves.<p>But how can I be certain that the cookies used on their site (for example) are not keeping data regarding my browser/behaviour/language etc, that I guess would fall under the regulation? Especially if the data is encrypted.
By design every website keeps data on you in their log files (/var/log/apache or /nginx). Wrt data, your data is send the moment you use Windows or a web browser (Telemetry). I highly doubt that data is kept securely.<p>The cookie law in particular is very vague, nobody knows what to do with it. The law is being reviewed and will be updated.