Actually I've already personally had the lawyers for a partner ram this one down my throat in the UK. It's absolutely ridiculous how out of their depth these legislators are. To take an idea that is readily implementable and enforceable at the browser level, but instead attempt to force every website operator in the world to implement it poorly at the server/application level is lunacy.

I'm all for privacy legislation, but in this case lawmakers' ignorance is only matched by their hubris.