[tehwalrus]

1) Good.

2) who the hell wrote this article?

"The UK and the EU have strict laws about mining personal data using cookies, which involves effectively installing a small monitoring device on people's phones or computers, but the process of tracking MAC codes leaves no trace on individuals' handsets."

I'm sorry, what now? a small data file is not a "device." (answer: Joe Miller, apparently.)

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Actually, a cookie could be considered a device, it would just be an unusual use of the word.