Comments on: The current cookie crisis http://boagworld.com/news/the-current-cookie-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-current-cookie-crisis Advice on web design and digital strategy from Paul Boag Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michael Walmsley http://boagworld.com/news/the-current-cookie-crisis/#comment-8794 Michael Walmsley Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:50:45 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=5075#comment-8794 This will probably be a storm in a teacup, but will be brilliant link bait for a few weeks as everybody runs round like headless chickens.

The advice from outlaw.com tallies entirely with what I have been advising my clients. I would imagine that the worse case scenario will be a message that appears when you access a site that asks that you agree to the T&C’s of the site, with a link to them. Most users tend to blindly click OK and this will then set a cookie that when detected on subsequent visits will prevent the message being shown.

For those users that do take the time to read the T&C’s the site will have to state how they take a users data privacy very seriously and the only cookies that are set are those that are absolutely necessary and how the data captured will help to provide future site improvements.

Mike

]]> By: Paul Morriss http://boagworld.com/news/the-current-cookie-crisis/#comment-8793 Paul Morriss Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:04:52 +0000 http://boagworld.com/?p=5075#comment-8793 I replied to a request in the ICO newsletter which asked people to say how this would affect them. After some experimentation I discovered that our online donations software (we are a charity) would crash if you disabled cookies. I told the ICO guy this and he said
“The revised rule does allow cookies without consent where they are “strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service.” “

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