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Re:The stupid cookie law is dead at last by onemorepassword on Thursday January 31, 2013 @08:54AM (#5144933)
The Dutch law applies to any company doing business in the Netherlands. So it applies to Facebook and Google as well as local Dutch sites, because they have offices here and accept money from Dutch users/advertisers.

It's almost just like in the real world...

(Also, there's plenty of jurisprudence for that when for instance it comes to online gambling.)

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Re:The stupid cookie law is dead at last by furyg3 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @10:04AM (#5145253)
"Doing business" is also complicated.

We're a Dutch not-for-profit, running under a US .org domain name, with some servers hosted in Germany, and our visitors come from everywhere.

Right now the decision is only to annoy Dutch visitors (based on IP), but I've been waiting to implement it until there is some clarity.

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Re:The stupid cookie law is dead at last by kintamanimatt on Thursday January 31, 2013 @10:47AM (#5145484)
What's the penalty for non-compliance in NL?
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Re:The stupid cookie law is dead at last by sandcore on Thursday January 31, 2013 @12:06PM (#5145934)
Maximum penalty is a fine of up to around 450.000 euros.
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