With a new law on obtaining consent for cookies coming into force today, the Information Commissioner has published details of how the ICO’s own site has been updated to comply. There appear to be three main changes: A lot more information on the privacy statement about the names and purposes of each cookie, and how […]
Tag: ePrivacy Directive
Posts about the ePrivacy Directive, originally (2002) regulating the activities of public networks; then amended in 2009 to regulate cookies. Most of this was rolled into the 2016 GDPR, but in 2017 a replacement ePrivacy Regulation was proposed which is still being debated in 2021…
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EC Security Breach Notification
The European Commission, Parliament and Council of Ministers have been discussing revisions to the package of Telecoms Directives for a couple of years, but now seem to be approaching a final conclusion. Once the new Directives are published, member states will have a fixed time period – normally 18 months – in which to implement […]
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Analytic Cookies: last minute change
With enforcement of the UK’s new law on internet cookies due to begin this week, on Friday the Information Commissioner published a new version of his guidance on compliance. Although the Information Commissioner says the new version is a clarification, others have described it as a “striking shift”. The most significant change appears to be […]
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Analytic Cookies: last minute change
With enforcement of the UK’s new law on internet cookies due to begin this week, on Friday the Information Commissioner published a new version of his guidance on compliance. Although the Information Commissioner says the new version is a clarification, others have described it as a “striking shift”. The most significant change appears to be […]
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Privacy Riskiness for Access Management
On a privacy course I teach for system and network managers I suggest a scale of “privacy riskiness”, the idea there being that if you can achieve an objective using information from lower down the scale then you run less risk of upsetting your users and/or being challenged under privacy law. That scale is very […]
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Cookies – *now* it’s time to wake up
The Information Commissioner has published his guidance on complying with new European cookie law, and the news is less good than had been hoped. Although the simplest way for a website to obtain users’ consent to installing cookies would be to rely on them having set appropriate cookie preferences in their browsers – indeed the […]
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Cookies – Better Browsers Required
A press release from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport confirms that the Government is looking to browser manufacturers to provide the main approach to implementing new European laws on cookies. However the release also confirms that current tools for managing cookies in browsers are not considered sufficient to obtain the consent that will […]
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Cookie law – time to act?
The Information Commissioner managed to greatly raise the profile of the new EU law on cookies last week, warning in a press release that “UK businesses must wake-up” to the forthcoming change. However this alarm bell seems to be a bit early, as the Government admitted that although it does expect to meet the deadline […]
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Home Office RIPA consultation
The Home Office have concluded that a couple of aspects of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 need to be fixed in order to comply with European law, and are doing a rapid consultation on the changes. Unfortunately although the consultation document is clear about what the problems are it doesn’t give a clear […]
Earlier this year the European Community revised its regulatory framework for telecommunications networks, so the UK Government is now consulting on how to implement those changes in UK law. Although most of the changes are not relevant to JANET as a private network, I have responded in three areas: Data breach notification, where the UK […]