Posts tagged "cookies"

A number of people are starting to put together week notes about what they have been up to over the past 5 days of work. I want to give this a go too, partly so I can look back in a few months time and remind myself what has been achieved. I probably won’t get round to writing these every week, but hopefully often enough that it makes sense. So, here we go with Week #1 (29 Apr – 3 May 2013):

Just over a year ago, I blogged that I was taking a break from CF Labs and joining a project to create a new website for government. Since then lots of things have happened, and many things have changed. Here is a quick summary: The Government Digital Service (GDS) was created to bring together many bits of government that were working on similar things, including the project to create the new website We released a public beta of our proposed new website for citizens (to replace Directgov).

2019 update: This e-book doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so I’ve removed the link The law was meant to protect the privacy of people using the Internet. To accomplish this, the EU made over 90% of websites illegal EU Cookie Law, the definitive guide. Oliver Emberton, Silktide. Back in May I wrote about the new EU law on cookies that came into effect this year and will be enforced from May 2012.

Later this week a new law comes into effect – the Privacy & Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011. This law requires all website operators in the EU to gain consent from visitors before storing or retrieving information from a visitors computer. Essentially, this law blocks the use of cookies until a user has been asked for (and has given) informed consent. Francis Davey, the fantastic tech legal expert has written an in-depth blog about the changes.