If my data ‘fuels of the digital economy’, pay me!
At the recent Westminster eForum on the European Data Protection Framework, Nick Stringer, IABUK Director of Regulatory Affairs (@nickstringer), said that personal data was the “fuel of the digital economy”. The thrust of his point being that ‘harder’ consent mechanisms embedded in the new European Data Protection Framework (EDPF) would cut-off this fuel supply and …
My favourite cookie banner to-date
The advertising standards authority (ASA) has to have the the worst implementation of an implied consent mechanism I have seen (to date). In case you cannot read the words, here’s what it says in the headline banner .. We are using cookies on our site to provide you with the best user experience. Disabling cookies …
Dutch Senate ‘enacts’ STRICT cookie law
Of all the EU member states it looks like the Netherlands are going to prove the most difficult to satisfy. Amendments made to their Telecommunicatiewet law on 8th May 2012 made it clear that the Dutch Authorities are ‘taking no prisoners’. The amendment makes it clear that that those who set cookies or use browser …
DMA ‘cookie guide’ says abandoned basket marketing is “strictly necessary”
Crikey! You know how we’re all struggling with interpreting the ‘black & white’ law and how to make it work ‘in the Real’ .. does the latest guidance from DMA help? Right up front, they state .. For your existing subscriber list, if the use to which the tracking in email goes beyond that which …
Do nothing for 13 seconds .. and you consent to cookies!
Do nothing for 13 seconds after landing on our site and we will infer that you have consented to the most invasive use of cookie technology we can think of! That can’t be right can it? Well that’s BT’s take on the guidance offered by the ICO on page 16 of their December 2011 Guidance …
Cookie law – is inferred consent enough?
There’s an ‘elephant in the room’ – or more precisely on page 16 of the ICO’s ‘Guidance on the rules on use of cookies and similar technologies’ and I need to talk about it! I’ve spent many hours anguishing over Article 29 Working Party documents (offers of counselling accepted), I’ve debated consent with clients and …
Digital Cream 2012 EU Cookie Law round table
EU Cookie Law – time to get into the detail! Really looking forward to tomorrow’s Digital Cream 2012 event at the Emirates Stadium, London. eConsultancy have asked me to moderate the round table session on the implementation of the ‘EU Cookie law’ (PECR 2011), which is just a great opportunity to both empathise with …
More ‘consent’ nomenclature
Further to my posting in October about the variation we see in the use of the ‘adverbs of consent’, here’s some more discombobulation (love that word!) The Privacy Commissioner in Canada has recently issued guidelines for online behavioural advertising in which there is reference to the Canadian Law PIPEDA “PIPEDA does recognize that the form …
Cookie smokescreen!
Is all the talk of COOKIE management just a smokescreen designed to take our attention away from the really difficult bits of complying with informed (prior) consent to access or store INFORMATION? Why is hardly anyone talking about all the other ways INFORMATION is ‘accessed/stored’ on end user terminal equipment? How is setting your browser …
Deciding what’s strictly necessary should prove interesting
Strictly come .. necessary Sorting out the strictly necessary from the necessary and the nice to have is going to prove challenging. I wonder how much information we will see dropped/pulled from browsers despite a DNT tag or cookie opt out PECR 2003 Regulation 6 (4)(b) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the technical storage …
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