Continuing our look at the recent update on EU cookie legislation at the Society for Computers and Law, we now turn to the wider international legal context. Richard Cumbley from Linklaters, whose specialist areas include advising large multinationals and nationals on complex information management and data privacy issues, gave us an overview. The title of …
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Cookies given “low consumer threat rating”
Consumers aren’t worried about cookies – they’d rather have tidy inboxes instead. At least, that’s what the latest update from the Information Commissioner’s Office seems to suggest. In its December 2012 activity report, the ICO gave cookies a low consumer-threat rating, noting that during the last six months of 2012 it received a mere 550 …
Cookie law comes into effect – but with major change
As web managers all over the UK will have been well aware, the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive passed into law over the weekend – and with it came a big surprise. Just hours before the law came into effect, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) updated its advice on cookies compliance to state that …
Choosing a recipe for cookie consent
Yesterday I presented at the Society for Computers and Law at an event focused on how early adopters are handling the issues of cookie consent. Read a recent overview of what’s likely to happen on 26th May, when the 12-month grace period for complying with the new EU cookie laws in the UK comes to …
A realistic deadline?
This week, I came across a surprising article on out-law.com. It quoted the EU Commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, who has urged internet companies and the W3C to establish a final technical standard for allowing users to control their privacy settings via a do-not-track system by June this year. To me, the …
