The SCL (Society for Computers and Law) held an update session on cookies this week. It’s coming up to two years since the introduction of the amended EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, and one year since the end of the grace period for UK compliance with EU cookie legislation. So it’s the perfect time …
Tag Archive: EU e-Privacy Directive
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 …
Tough cookie: part II
The cookies debate is heating up in the Netherlands, with the Dutch parliament being asked to throw out a proposal which could make developing and using websites in the Netherlands much more challenging. As I mentioned in a previous post, the Netherlands has proposed a particularly draconian interpretation of the EU e-Privacy Directive’s requirement for …
Cookies: the browser question
If you’ve been following the news about cookies laws, you’ll be aware that there’s a general hope that the issue of consent can be addressed by a new generation of browsers. The UK government is already in talks with the big browser providers to discuss how cookies consent might be integrated. But quite apart from …
