Many of the problems in applying European Data Protection Law on-line arise from uncertainty over whether the law covers labels that allow an individual to be recognised (i.e. “same person as last time”) but not – unless you are the issuer of the label – identified (i.e. “Andrew again”). The Article 29 Working Party have [...]
The law graduate in me having gone to lie down with a headache from trying to understand the implications of the new UK cookie law, the maths graduate is having a look at it. So the following bears no relation to legal thinking; since it’s ten years since I ran a web server it may [...]
With a new law on obtaining consent for cookies coming into force today, the Information Commissioner has published details of how the ICO’s own site has been updated to comply. There appear to be three main changes:
A lot more information on the privacy statement about the names and purposes of each cookie, and how access [...]
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive)(Amendment) Regulations 2011 have now been published, amending the previous Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 as required by the new EC Telecommunications Directives.
As well as new law on cookies that has been discussed previously (Regulation 6), the regulations introduce into UK law a requirement to notify [...]