Cookies
RSS feed for this sectionCookies
European guidance on mobile apps and privacy
The Article 29 Working Party (the “A29WP”), a grouping of representatives from the various European data protection and privacy regulators, recently issued an opinion on apps on smart devices. There are two constants with the A29WP’s opinions: Firstly, although often presented as s...ICO revisits approach to cookie law consent – what does this mean for other organisations?
Last month, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it was going to change the way that it sought to obtain consent from users to the use of cookies on its website, as required under laws that came into force in May 2011 (known as the cookies law). Those changes were impleme...Could adhoc solutions to the cookie law be harming website usability?
Last week I was invited to speak to members of the Scottish Usability Professionals Association (SUPA) about the new cookie law. SUPA “brings together UK professionals based in Scotland from the design, technology and research communities who share a vision of creating compelling technology th...New guidance on cookies that are exempt from consent requirements
The Article 29 Working Party, a grouping of representatives from the various national privacy regulators in Europe, today published an opinion on the “essential cookies” exemption under the cookie law. Opinions of the Article 29 Working Party have no legal effect, but do represent the jo...Implied Consent – Last minute change of tack for cookies law
If you have been keeping an eye on the TechBlog cookies law page, you will no doubt be aware that the ‘grace period’ for compliance with the new cookies law ended on 26 May. The one year grace period was introduced to allow website operators time to make the necessary technical changes to their ...Techblogger seminar on cookies law and usability
So, in advance of the expiry tomorrow of the ICO’s one year grace period for complying with the new cookies law, you’ve carried out your website audit and privacy impact assessment, identified the most appropriate way to obtain consent from users, and have implemented (or in the process ...Techblogger quoted in article on new cookies law
I am quoted in an article on the new cookies regulations in this month’s edition of B2B Marketing magazine. B2B Marketing is a magazine for business marketers, and the article looks at some of the practical issues around implementating the necessary changes required to comply with the new regu...Techblogger seminar on the new cookies law
I’m taking part in a breakfast seminar next week, hosted by Edinburgh based usability consultants User Vision, on the new cookies law. I’m sharing a platform with Andrew Hood, managing director of web analytics company, Lynchpin Analyytics, and our host, Chris Rourke, managing director o...Six weeks to go – is your organisation prepared for the cookies law?
With six weeks remaining until the end of the one year grace period given by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for compliance with the new cookies laws, it’s vital that organisations can demonstrate to the ICO that they are well on the way to compliance. Whilst the ICO was repo...Behavioural advertising cookies – why the new industry consent mechanisms don’t work
With around six weeks to go until the end of the Information Commissioner’s one year grace period for compliance with the new cookies regulations, it’s time for another blog post on one of the more problematic issues. I’ve blogged before about my experiences with online behavioural...Opinion piece on behavioural advertising and cookies
I have an opinion piece in this week’s edition of Computing magazine. The article is based on my blog a couple of months ago following my experience with the hotels.com and Guardian websites. What do you think? Is transparency and information about behavioural advertising an issue? Did you kno...ICO publishes updated guidance on cookies compliance
The Information Commissioner’s Office has today published updated guidance on how organisations should comply with the new rules on cookies that came into force earlier this year. As regular Techblog readers will remember, the new rules came into force without any clear guidance on how organis...Targeted online advertising – are you aware of how it works?
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at flights and hotels for a trip to Reykjavik this January. One of the websites that I visited was hotels.com, following a link from the Tripadvisor website. This morning, I read an article on the Guardian website about the recent overhaul of the Independent webs...