A press release from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport confirms that the Government is looking to browser manufacturers to provide the main approach to implementing new European laws on cookies. However the release also confirms that current tools for managing cookies in browsers are not considered sufficient to obtain the consent that will [...]
An interesting news item from SWITCH, the Swiss NREN and also operator of the .ch and .li TLD registries, on how they are alerting website owners to malware and, if necessary, taking action to protect customers from being infected.
Swiss law allows the registry to suspend a domain for five days, or longer if the need [...]
The Advocate General to the European Court has published his recommendation for the Court’s response to questions raised in the long-running Belgian case of SABAM v Scarlet. In 2007 the Belgian court ordered the ISP Scarlet, at the request of the copyright enforcement society SABAM, to implement specific Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems to detect [...]
I’ve just spotted a speech given last month to the CBI by Communications Minister, Ed Vaizey, in which he proposes a pragmatic approach to EC law on cookies and Data Protection. On cookies, he describes the provisions in the revised European Telecoms Directives (in particular Article 2(5) of Directive 2009/136/EC) that require user consent as:
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