Comments on: How the Yahoo portal personalises User Experience

By: Chrystian Guy

Chrystian Guy — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:58:02 +0000

Can we see an example of good practice regarding cookies and geolocating using the services you mentioned?

I think people just don’t know how to do it right…

By: Olivier Théreaux

Olivier Théreaux — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:15:53 +0000

Karl, I thought this was impossible due to the fact that cookies are a mere key/value pair. A quick look at RFC2109 proved me wrong:

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Optional. Because cookies can contain private information about a user, the Cookie attribute allows an origin server to document its intended use of a cookie. The user can inspect the information to decide whether to initiate or continue a session with this cookie.

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By: karl

karl — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:11:04 +0000

I’m wondering since the participation to the Privacy Workshop how the transparency on how are used the cookies could be made. Sometimes a simple sentence could help users to decide the nature of the cookies. Not exactly how they are used, but what are their purpose.

For example, the one you have been described could be something along
description: “Geolocation information set by Acme Inc visiting this page http://example.com/I/see/you“