Cookie Monster
The new cookie law comes into force today (26 May 2011). The regulations make it clear that UK businesses and organisations running websites in the UK need to get consent from visitors to their websites in order to store cookies on the visitors computers. Cookies are created when a user loads a particular website and this website sends information to the browser which creates a text file. Every time the user revisits the same website, the browser retrieves and sends this file to the website’s server. For more information about cookies go to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ From 26 May 2011 you will need a user’s consent if you want their browser to store cookies. Previously you just had to tell people how you used cookies and how they could opt out if they objected. The easiest way of doing this was to put this information in the privacy policies. The new rules say that essentially cookies can only be placed on machines when the user’s consent has been given. The ICO tells us
