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General Information about cookies and cookie law
- What cookies are (from the EU Internet Handbook)
- Your Consumer Privacy Rights
- The EU law (information for UK organizations)
- Cookie infographic (from 2012, when the topic was more of a discussion)
- An interesting rant page about how little-slidey-warnings-everywhere are a pointless annoyance
- Cookie pie chart
- Pictures of cookies
- Homer Simpson cookie jar
From KnowledgePower:Gallery of interesting Cookie Warning implementations
Privacy hall of fame:
- Lantern
- Meshed Sites
- Tor
- Tails Linux distro
- Dedicated hardware device to route everything through Tor
- Multi-factor authentication
- Obligatory xkcd about strong passwords
- Living off the grid
- Tin Foil
Privacy wall of shame:
- Spy agencies mix intercepted cookies with other data to identify users they are tracking
- Anyone saying metadata doesn't matter (oh yes it does)
- Dropbox
- All those apps which need access to everything for no apparent reason