Online Privacy News and Views
Google Goes Cookie Law Compliant
The world’s largest web company has started moving towards complying with the cookie law, nearly two years after it came into effect in the UK and other EU countries.
Ad Tracking Gets More Personal
One of the ad industry’s main arguments against tougher privacy regulation has often been the claim that they are not really targeting people but the devices they use.
Irish Data Protection Commissioner to Begin Cookie Law Enforcement
Yesterday at the ICC ePrivacy Seminar a representative of the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner announced that they were planning to contact the owners of 50 of Ireland’s top websites as the start of a process to enforce compliance with Ireland’s implementation of the cookie law.
OFT Investigates Personalised Pricing
The UK Office of Fair Trading has announced a call for information about practices surrounding personalised pricing in ecommerce websites.
Tracking Cookies To Require Explicit Consent?
The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) – an EU advisory body made up of the different national data protection regulators, has published an important new opinion this week on the definition of personal data – which could just reaslise the worst fears of the online advertising world.
Cookie Law UK Enforcement Update
Publishers, Advertisers, Designers and Developers have all got their own reasons for not liking the law. And in the last few days the ‘we hate the cookie law’ and ‘get rid of the cookie law’ have had quite a lot of success in getting their message across.
Do Not Track, the Cookie Law and IE10
I have recently written about including support for Do Not Track (DNT for short) in the Optanon privacy compliance service, but as it is likely to become an ever more important issue in the general online privacy debate, I thought it would be worth looking at what DNT is and what its widespread consumer adoption might mean for the industry in more detail.
The Drawbacks of Relying on Browser Controls for Cookie Privacy
Quite a lot of websites have opted for an ‘easy’ solution to complying with the cookie law that relies on pointing people to sites that tell them how to use their browsers to prevent ‘their’ cookies from being set.
Automated Cookie Law Enforcement in the Netherlands
As many people are aware, the implementation of the EU directive into local laws in each EU member state has resulted in some fundamental differences from country to country.
The Cookie Law is Not Dead
There has been a growing number of people in the weeks since the cookie law ‘deadline’ passed on May 26th coming out to declare both the failure of the ICO to enforce it, and its resultant death-by-apathy.
