Cookies

News on the cookie law after it all going quiet after the deadline passed for cookies implementing the cookie directive, it was implemented this May a year after it was passed into law by the government in May 2011.

The BBC are reporting http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19505835 a company is tauting the ICO over the directive.

What has been happening in the UK since May, it appears in May the  Information Commissioner’s Office wrote to 50 top UK websites to find out what actions have been taken towards compliance with the new EU e-Privacy Directive, in June the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)  confirmed that some of the 75 companies that it sent a warning letter to regarding the new cookies legislation have not replied within the imposed 28-day response period.

In August it was being reported that no action had been taken against any specific site although 320 sites had been reported to the ICO

How are the rest of Europe doing, well in the May the situation was eight member states – Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovenia – have yet to even transpose the directive into their national laws, let alone start enforcing it. However in the other 19 countries, there’s a pretty big variation in how national laws interpret the directive. It should also be pointed out that the UK is something of a special case here, in that its data protection authority gave businesses an extra 12 months to comply, which ended in the May. The rest had already enforcing their updated laws for the 12 months prior to May.