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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources discussing the perceived impact of cookies on individual privacy.
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- Share cookies compliance expertise says ICO
- Privacy watchdog wants government websites to disseminate good practice about complying with EU cookie regulations, by Gill Hitchcock. Guardian Professional, Friday 18 May 2012. "The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) wants public sector bodies that have made their websites comply with EU cookie regulations to share their knowledge with others..."
Added: 22 May 2012;
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- How to Guide: Mobile and Cookies Legislation
- by Mark Brill. Published by The DMA Mobile Marketing Council, First edition, April 2012. "From 26th May 2011 additional measures generally referred to as ‘cookies regulations’ came into force as part of an update of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR). From now on in this paper, we will refer to the recently amended regulations as 'the Regulations.' Recognising implementation issues, the ICO has set a deadline of May 2012 before they start to enforce fully the Regulations insofar as they apply to the use of cookies and similar technology. This paper looks at the legal, compliance, technical and best practice issues around the Regulations in relation to mobile devices. For the purposes of this paper, we have used “mobile devices” to cover both mobile phones and tablet devices which use mobile or mobile-style operating systems ..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- How will the EU cookie law affect mobile marketing?
- by Graham Charlton. E-consultancy, Posted 8 May 2012. "The EU e-Privacy Directive and subsequent ICO guidance is complicated and confusing enough when you look at desktop sites alone, but then there's the question of how it translates to mobile. To recap: the 'cookie law' covers the use by businesses of information stored on users' 'terminal equipment' and this covers mobile sites and apps as well as desktop sites. In a new white paper, Mark Brill from the DMA has bravely attempted to untangle some of the issues around mobile and the cookie law..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- 89% of UK consumers think the EU cookie law is a positive step, but is it?
- by Graham Charlton. E-consultancy, Posted 9 May 2012. "89% of UK consumers think that the EU cookie law is a positive step, though 75% had not heard of the e-Privacy Directive before they were surveyed. Funnily enough, a similar proportion of marketers (82%) in a recent Econsultancy/Toluna survey think the opposite and view the cookie law as a real threat to the web..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- EU e-Privacy Directive survey
- By Econsultancy, March 2012. "In March 2012, Econsultancy ran a short poll of more than 700 marketers about the new EU e-Privacy Directive to see how companies are preparing for the new legislation ahead of the May 26 deadline..."
Added: 19 April 2012;
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- It's not about cookies, it's about privacy
- by Dafydd Vaughan. Government Digital Service, 19 March 2012. "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 which came into effect last year has presented UK website owners with a few challenges in moving to compliance. Those of us who work on public sector websites are no exception..." Provides a short implementer guide containing some pointers to a best practice approach to using cookies on government websites.
Added: 29 March 2012;
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- Software launched to help councils deal with new EU cookie law
- Posted by Rachel Fielding. Public Technology, 6 February 2012. "A new cookie control application has been launched to help public sector webmasters avoid falling foul of new EU data laws due to come into force in May. Cookie Control is a so-called 'cookie consent' application developed by digital communications agency CIVIC, designed to gain user consent where other solutions have failed..."
Added: 8 February 2012;
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- Google Struggling to Create System to Comply with UK ePrivacy Directive
- by V3. Search Engine Watch, December 7, 2011. "Google has admitted that it is struggling to create a system of processes that will allow the firm to abide by new cookie laws owing to the sheer number of its products that are affected by the rules. The cookie law is an amendment to the ePrivacy Directive which came into force on 26 May, and requires web site owners using cookies to achieve explicit consent from visitors to install and run cookies on their systems..."
Added: 8 December 2011;
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- Most public sector websites out of line with cookies law
- Survey reveals that only six public sector websites meet the requirements of new law on cookies, by Gill Hitchcock. Guardian Professional, Monday 22 August 2011. "Most local councils, police and fire services have not yet taken action to ensure their websites comply with new legislation on cookies, according to an independent audit..."
Added: 25 August 2011;
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- How Fresh are your Cookies?
- By Irene Bodle. Web Analytics World, August 22, 2011. "As a result of changes to the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, it is now unlawful to use cookies to collect user data without first obtaining explicit consent. In the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is responsible for ensuring that websites comply with the new cookie law, has implemented a technical solution on its own website with the result that traffic to it plummeted..."
Added: 23 August 2011;
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- KISSmetrics, Hulu Sued Over New Tracking Technology
- by Wendy Davis, Online Media Daily, Monday, August 1, 2011. "Two major Web companies, Hulu and Spotify, suspended use of KISSmetrics' analytics service after it emerged late last week that the company was using "ETag" technology to track users even when they delete their cookies. In addition, two consumers filed a potential class-action privacy lawsuit against KISSmetrics and Hulu on Friday, alleging violations of federal law and California state law..."
Added: 8 August 2011;
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- Cookie refusal leads to 90% drop in measured visits to ICO site
- By Brian Tarran. Research, 4 July 2011. "UK — The Information Commissioner' Office (ICO) has seen a 90% drop in the number of tracked visits to its website since it started asking web users for explicit permission to place a cookie, as required by new European Union rules. Figures show that in the three weeks leading up to 24 May – the day before the ICO introduced the new cookie arrangements – average daily visits were 8,237. In the three weeks after the change there were 883..."
Added: 11 July 2011;
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- Privacy Commissioner examines EU cookie laws
- By Liz Tay. IT News, July 4, 2011. "No Australian guidelines despite directive's May deadline. Federal agencies are looking to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) for advice on Europe’s new 'opt in' approach to web cookies. European Union (EU) member states were required to adopt the 2009 amendment (pdf) to the Directive 2002/58 on Privacy and Electronic Communication by 25 May. The new rules require websites to obtain users' permission before storing or accessing information about them, unless that data is needed for services explicitly requested by the user..."
Added: 6 July 2011;
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- EU Cookie Law - the definitive guide
- by Oliver Emberton. Silktide.com, 9 June 2011. "We've heard a lot of talk about the new EU Cookie Law, but little real information. So we made this book. We've aimed to be practical and comprehensive. We cover everything from the fine print of the law to the technologies that satisfy it in detail..."
Added: 30 June 2011;
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- European Union requires websites to make users 'opt-in' to website cookies
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Tuesday, June 28, 2011. "The EU Government's 2009 Directive banning "unnecessary" cookies in websites (if the site doesn't ask users to accept the cookie first) has just begun coming into effect - causing havoc and distress amongst European webmasters..."
Added: 30 June 2011;
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