It’s nearly a month since the new regulations on the use of cookies on websites came into force in the UK, and the situation seems to be no clearer. The only certainty appears to be that we have another year before any enforcement action will be taken by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The Register [...]

In our previous article we talked about the changes to The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations that will come into force on 26th May 2011. This means that website owners will need to get explicit consent from their users before to store cookies on their computers. Find the normal web cookies As a starting point [...]

This article is one of those that has to start with the caution that “we are not lawyers, but …”. From May 26th 2011  The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations will change so that every UK website has to receive explicit consent from its users before storing any cookies on their computer. The legislation is [...]