Cookies

The Information Commissioner’s latest guidance on cookies contains some good news for anyone trying to work out how to make a host of internal websites compliant: How do these rules apply to intranets? In our view the rules do not apply in the same way to intranets.

I've been looking around to see what information other countries' authorities are providing about the new EC cookie regulations.

Although its main concern is the more general application of consent to data processing a new Opinion from the Article 29 Working Party also provides the first positive hint I’ve seen from regulators on what they think an acceptable cookie interface might look like. Although this is a helpful development – statements from other regulators have mostly concerned what was not acceptable – their ideas still seem to raise significant technical and legal issues.