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On the 26th May 2012 the UK Cookie law will come into effect.
It actually came into effect in 2011, but a 12 month grace period was allowed to give site owners time to make the required modifications.
The full law can be read here
As IT professionals we are bound to be asked questions on this subject by confused clients, and as IT professionals we also should make sure that our sites abide by the law.
Basically, essential cookies are OK and need no warning (eg, add to cart) but non essential and "important" cookies need to have the users permission.
I like many here use Wordpress & google analytics. After installing attacat cookie monitoring plugin in chrome, I found that the only cookies issued by my site were those from google analytics. (My site is a static site with no blog, comments etc)
So to abide by the law I need to either a) have a popup explaining that my site uses cookies, click here to accept blah blah blah, or remove google analytics. I have chosen to remove analytics
It also seems that most government websites will faile to comply in time read more here
Just wondering what, if anything, others here are doing about this now the deadline is drawing closer, and what interpretations of the law you have?
It actually came into effect in 2011, but a 12 month grace period was allowed to give site owners time to make the required modifications.
The full law can be read here
As IT professionals we are bound to be asked questions on this subject by confused clients, and as IT professionals we also should make sure that our sites abide by the law.
Basically, essential cookies are OK and need no warning (eg, add to cart) but non essential and "important" cookies need to have the users permission.
I like many here use Wordpress & google analytics. After installing attacat cookie monitoring plugin in chrome, I found that the only cookies issued by my site were those from google analytics. (My site is a static site with no blog, comments etc)
So to abide by the law I need to either a) have a popup explaining that my site uses cookies, click here to accept blah blah blah, or remove google analytics. I have chosen to remove analytics
It also seems that most government websites will faile to comply in time read more here
Just wondering what, if anything, others here are doing about this now the deadline is drawing closer, and what interpretations of the law you have?