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Peekay wrote:
@shine
As Mamba has already pointed out.
From the ICO website:
Quote:Some cookies can be exempted from informed consent under certain conditions if they are not used for additional purposes. These cookies include cookies used to keep track of a user’s input when filling online forms or as a shopping card, also known as session-id cookies, multimedia player session cookies and user interface customisation cookies, eg language preference cookies to remember the language selected by the user.
Session cookies, language cookies, cookies to prevent security issues are exempt under this law and fall under the status of 'implied consent'. You do NOT have to ask permission to set them before the site is loaded.
If you implement a script to pop up a cookie warning when you are just setting a session cookie, many people will (quite rightly) assume you want to set tracking cookies and go elsewhere.
As the only way to record someone's consent to cookies is to set a cookie, or to store their IP address in a database, this stupid law is encouraging webmasters to record more personal data about site visitors than before the law was introduced.
Thát is so true. Ridiculous law. While, for example, in 90% of european countries you only have to notify visitors about cookies (either on top or bottom or left/right of the page), in the Netherlands and I believe (not sure) France, you need to implement a pop-up and ask for permission.
As a fellow CSC (cyber security consultant), my nephew (who leads the IT behind the scenes in 'de tweede kamer') notified the government about this crazy and stupid and extremely ridiculous law, especially because either:
- some systems do not have the option to implement such thing which leads to a lot of costs for webmasters to redo every website they made and make in the future.
OR
- simple webmasters (like me, i'm still learning a lot) have no idea hów to implement such script(s) which also leads to more costs because they have to hire someone to do it.
.. it's an utter ridiculous law and everyone involved in the website- and design business are stressing out to get things done.
The webmaster of www.fok.nl (a dutch news-site) has posted a wicked review of this so called 'security for all means'-law. It's in Dutch, but if you hit the translate button in chrome (if you use it), you will get the idea of what's so ridiculous between dutch coverage of this law and the rest of the european union. Featured is an English movie embedded from youtube about this act:
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Dutch Cookie-Law
