I took part in a cookie law event this week hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.  The DCMS being the government department responsible for this particular law.

Of particuylar interest on the day was a keynote address from the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham

We have released a new version of the Optanon Auditor this week, which contains two important changes as well as several minor ones.

The Auditor now submits more data back to our systems - so we can provide improved services to assess how they are impacted by the ePrivacy Regulations.

Optanon now comes with Multi Touch Consent functionality for greater alignment of visitor consent processes with the overall user experience.

Ever since the ICO started giving out guidance to people on complying with the cookie law, there has been this idea of degrees of cookie intrusiveness.

We have been collecting cookies in our database now for nearly a whole year, but every time we take a look at the data, we find something new.

Since the latest guidance on complying with the cookie law in the UK was published by the ICO in December there has been a lot of talk about 'implied consent'. 

We touched on this issue in a blog post at the time, but since then there have been quite a few people latching on to and promoting this idea in the belief that it enables less change to be made to a site and a less intrusive user experience. 

However we believe that in practice the opposite is true, certainly when considering the user experience.

We have released a new version of the Cookie Collector for Google Chrome today.

Anybody using the Chrome Collector will need to download the new version in order to continue to submit cookies to our database.

The UK branch of the International Chambers of Commerce has been doing some sterling work in the past few months on creating guidance for Cookie Law compliance.

The Cookie Collector web service has now been brought back online following extensive database re-structuring.

A little while back we made an announcement that we had suspended the collection of new cookie data via our plug-ins.  This was made necessary due to the increase in demand that was over-whelming our systems with new data.

The ICO has published its much anticipated half-term report along with updated guidance on complying with the cookie law in the UK.