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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- ICO gives website owners one year to comply with cookies law - in pdf format (34kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Information Commissioner's Office, News release, 25 May 2011. "Organisations and businesses that run websites aimed at UK consumers are being given up to 12 months to 'get their house in order' before enforcement of the new EU cookies law begins, Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham said today. The UK government has revised the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, which come into force in the UK on 26 May, to address new EU requirements. The Regulations make clear that UK businesses and organisations running websites in the UK need to get consent from visitors to their websites in order to store cookies on users' computers..."
Added: 26 May 2011;
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- Google Analytics and the new EU privacy law
- Measuring Success - Official blog for the book Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics by Brian Clifton, May 20, 2011. "Following new EU laws aimed at protecting the privacy of online users, there has been much said about the death of web tracking as we know it. At present the wording of the law is stating that visitors to your website must explicitly consent to having cookies stored on their computers. As pretty much all web analytics tools reply on cookies for visitor tracking, there are clearly implications for anyone that uses these on their site..."
Added: 23 May 2011;
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- Changes to the rules on using cookies and similar technologies for storing information - in pdf format (128kb)
- Information Commissioner's Office, 9 May 2011. "The law which applies to how you use cookies and similar technologies for storing information on a user's equipment such as their computer or mobile device is changing on 26 May 2011. This document sets out these changes and explains what steps you need to take now to ensure you comply. It is aimed at those organisations which are starting to think about how they will comply with the new rules. It is a starting point for getting compliant rather than a definitive guide..."
Added: 10 May 2011;
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- ICO advice on new EU cookies law published - in pdf format (73kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Information Commissioner's Office, News release, 9 May 2011. "Advice on how UK businesses and organisations can comply with a new EU law on the use of cookies technology has been published today by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The law, which will come into force on 26 May 2011, comes from an amendment to the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive. It will require UK businesses and organisations running websites in the UK to get informed consent from visitors to their websites in order to store and retrieve information on users’ computers. One common technique of storing information is known as a cookie..."
Added: 10 May 2011;
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- Bittersweet cookies: Some security and privacy considerations
- Authors: Rodica Tirtea - ENISA; Claude Castelluccia - INRIA; Demosthenes Ikonomou - ENISA. European Network and information Security Agency (ENISA), February 2, 2011. "In this paper, we identify and briefly analyse some of the most common types of cookies in terms of security vulnerabilities and privacy concerns. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the security and privacy concerns generated by the use of cookies, without exhaustively identifying all of them; it is intended to serve as a starting point for further analysis by different communities..."
Added: 10 March 2011;
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