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Implementing the EU Cookie Law

26 May, 2012 by PashaO
EU Cookie law
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In May 2011 a new privacy law came into effect across the EU that requires all websites to ask visitors for consent to use web cookies. The EU Cookie Law gave webmasters a year to comply with this law.

The new law was put in place to help protect people’s privacy. For example, if you use Google to search for “shoes”, a cookie will be placed on your machine to remember this search. When you visit another website later, Google may target shoe related ads at you because they remember who you are.

When you consider the hundreds of searches you do on Google, you realise just how much they know about you as a result of your activity. If that scares you, you can mix up your searches by turning on your web browser’s private browsing option.

The cookie law has caused outrage as many webmasters considered how this would impact their sites.

Some bespoke Content Management providers are taking advantage of this current situation by charging upwards of £500 to implement a cookie policy system. This is pretty outrageous for a law that wasn’t quite sure where it was going to do. Initially, webmasters were told to ask for consent (explicit consent) before placing cookies. This then changed allowing for implied consent, meaning that cookies are set on a visitor’s computer and they are informed about cookies.

Whichever option you choose make sure you write a policy and add it to our site. Good luck to anyone paying for an explicit consent system. Of course, I\’ll be keeping an eye on any changes to the law, as it is so fickle.

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