[LRUG] This cookie nonsense

Thu Jun 21 06:36:05 PDT 2012

I've had quite a bit of experience in this area and the only real answer is
"nobody knows" - until there's actually a case that goes to court there's
no way to tell which of the many approaches is legal due to the vagueness
of the language.

As to what to do, I think the 'implied consent' banners that people like
the BBC have put up are the way to go if you want to be safe, though I
don't think there's a great need to do anything at this point. Peronsally
I'm my strategy is wait, it may well be a YAGNI situation.

<rant> Having seen this law take shape over the years I'm still amazed this
actually came into force. It's a bizarre bit of legislation constructed by
people that fundamentally don't understand the technology who have also
been lobbied hard by the industry. It doesn't do anything to protect the
public (check out https://panopticlick.eff.org/, evercookie
http://samy.pl/evercookie/ etc. ) all it's really doing is costing
businesses time and money </rant>

p.s. as always, these are my personal opinions and in no way should be
taken as either legal advice or any reflection on my clients

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David Burrows
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Graham Ashton <graham at effectif.com> wrote:

> On 21 Jun 2012, at 13:16, Kevin Monk wrote:
>
> > What are people doing about this EU cookie law?
>
> I need to read more about it yet, but for the moment my plan involves
> adding this JavaScript to my <head> tag.
>
>  <script src="http://cookieok.eu/bar/js/cookieok.js"></script>
>
> It's from the first post on this site's blog:
>
>  http://cookieok.eu/
>
> I haven't checked whether they've sorted the CSS for old versions of IE;
> if they haven't I'll fix that myself.
>
> --
> Graham Ashton
> Founder, The Agile Planner
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>
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