Cookie Regulation in Force in Sweden

Someone in Sweden is a little to paranoid about cookie usage. For those of you that don't know much about cookies here is a short intro. A cookie is a small text file that is created and stored by your browser on instruction from a website and can only be read by the web domain that created them. Ad companies use cookies to track where people go but also use the information to record banner sale information including what site they should give the commissions to.

Now you can stop the creation of cookies but by doing so you also have restricted yourself from using many of the advanced features of the web. For instance when you login to a website (username and password) a cookie is created to help tell the website who you are and how long you have been hanging around. These cookies are what we call "sessions" and are also destroyed after 20min of idle time or when your browser is closed. Now if a user disables cookies in their browser they also disable these and other "basic" web features that have become commonplace over the past few years.
"The user shall be provided with the opportunity to decline the use of cookies during the web site visit ("current session"). The Act does state that the user must accept cookies, provided that so called "normal request routines" are used when the cookie is set and provided that the user may turn off cookies in his web browser. "
This kind of makes me wonder if they even know what they are talking about.

Related Web URL: http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/07/2...