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Does anybody know if this is actually being enforced in any way? (The cookie law that is?) I'm in the UK so use a bunch of sites here. What I have noticed is t

by jiggy2011 14y ago

Does anybody know if this is actually being enforced in any way? (The cookie law that is?) I'm in the UK so use a bunch of sites here. What I have noticed is that only large active sites by big companies and orgs actually have cookie notices. None of the other countless sites actually have it at all. So I'm wondering how long it will be before people just stop putting these things up at all?

rmc 14y ago
Does anybody know if this is actually being enforced in any way? (The cookie law that is?) I don't know. But just FYI, it would be the local data protection commissioner that would be in charge of enforcing this law AFAIK.
ilcavero 14y ago
no it isn't, check this out http://nocookielaw.com/ http://nocookielaw.com/
digitalengineer 14y ago
It's not (yet). Typical 'Big Gov' solution. Extra dumb are websites that force you to accept the cookies each and every time you visit them. Oh yeah, even the government's own sites are not all up to date.
- robotmay 14y ago
  Not really our government's fault though; to their credit they did actually try and fight it a bit. IIRC our regulation (in the UK) has a few differences from the EU one.
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    - Gmo 14y ago
      OK, comment has been deleted, I therefore edit mine out.
  - rmc 14y ago
    All EU countries implement all EU law slightly differently (just look the EU Working Time Directive). EU law just gives the minimum that countries have to do. From looking into it myself, it looks like UK implementation is stricter than e.g. Irish one.
- lotsofcows 14y ago
  Errmmm, you seem to not understand what cookies are for...
kcathode 14y ago
I did some screen-scraping research, and it turns out that the top visited domains (as defined by Alexa) actually set a fair amount of cookies: Visualization and data is here: http://www.demo.hauthaus.net/eurobake/# http://www.demo.hauthaus.net/eurobake/#

rmc 14y ago

Does anybody know if this is actually being enforced in any way? (The cookie law that is?) I don't know. But just FYI, it would be the local data protection commissioner that would be in charge of enforcing this law AFAIK.

ilcavero 14y ago

no it isn't, check this out http://nocookielaw.com/ http://nocookielaw.com/

digitalengineer 14y ago

It's not (yet). Typical 'Big Gov' solution. Extra dumb are websites that force you to accept the cookies each and every time you visit them. Oh yeah, even the government's own sites are not all up to date.

robotmay 14y ago
Not really our government's fault though; to their credit they did actually try and fight it a bit. IIRC our regulation (in the UK) has a few differences from the EU one.
- deleted 14y ago
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  - Gmo 14y ago
    OK, comment has been deleted, I therefore edit mine out.
- rmc 14y ago
  All EU countries implement all EU law slightly differently (just look the EU Working Time Directive). EU law just gives the minimum that countries have to do. From looking into it myself, it looks like UK implementation is stricter than e.g. Irish one.
lotsofcows 14y ago
Errmmm, you seem to not understand what cookies are for...

kcathode 14y ago

I did some screen-scraping research, and it turns out that the top visited domains (as defined by Alexa) actually set a fair amount of cookies: Visualization and data is here: http://www.demo.hauthaus.net/eurobake/# http://www.demo.hauthaus.net/eurobake/#