# Fact vs fiction: ICO debunks myths on storage and access technologies
That this exists is a bit weird?
@neil Hmm "like device fingerprinting, where they involve storage or access"
My understanding is that normally device fingerprinting involves no "storage" on the device, just what the device already has/is.
@revk which may be "access"
@neil I may have to go re-read PECR, I thought it covered "access" of what you "stored", but as always, I may be wrong.
If it is indeed "access" to "any" information, then every single GET includes information from the device, such as the URL you are requesting, the referring page, etc, which the server "accesses", and would make every single web request come under PECR. So I am not sure it can be that wide and make any sense (LOL, assuming it makes sense).
@revk It does not limit "access" to what one has "stored".
Fun game: if a server logs a browser user agent string, from an http request, has the provider thereby "accessed" information from the user's device, even though it was sent automatically? :)
@neil Quite!!!
@neil Out of interest, does it work both ways.
If I get a web page, I'm "accessing" information on the server. Does PECR apply to me? What if my personal web server/device?
Basically wondering how badly this is drafted 🙂
@neil @falken Oh, one of those things from which Brexit would save us 🙂
[sorry]
And on a serious note, some of *us* needed to be more involved in the EU regulations happening in the first place, and making them more "sane" in technological terms. I have helped on some legislation, but it would be hard work to do more. If we were in the EU still I'd stand a chance of being more involved when needed.
I would turn in to a full time job though!
@falken @revk
Nothing to do with Ofcom, and this is the implementation of an EU directive :)