By any yardstick the implementation of the EU's Privacy and Communications Directive by its member states has been poor. This is the 'cookie law' that governs what information a web site can collect on its visitors without explicitly asking them if it's ok.
When the deadline to implement it passed in May only Estonia, Denmark and the UK had taken steps to bring it into law.

Denmark has decided now decided to puts it draft rules on ice indefinitely and the UK has given firms a year to comply. To give the UK's Information Commissioner's Office its due, its guidance on the law is probably the most comprehensive of any member state so far.

Internet stalking

This Directive was born of consumer concerns upon finding adverts for a particular product they had previously looked at mysteriously appearing on subsequent sites they visited.

This led to an outcry as people realised they were basically being stalked around the internet. And who was this sneaky perpetrator? Cookies. Most cookies perform basic functional tasks like storing your login details or....Read about this story: BBC News - Cookie: monster? How will business cope with new laws