Hi
Yes this cookie business is on our radar too, so we'd be very interested in hearing what other cultural heritage organisations are planning to do about it. As I understand it the main motivation is to prevent the use of the information in these cookies for targetted advertising (I note that John Lewis adverts remember what I was browsing on their site).
There was some hope that the browsers might help us out, but it sounds like every website has to explain exactly what it is using cookies for before asking people to agree, so this is something that would have to be hand crafted.
Best regards
Daphne
Daphne Charles
IMT Developer Team leader, English Heritage
Tel: 01722 320994 www.english-heritage.org.uk
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Sent: 10 May 2011 15:06
To: CHARLES, Daphne
Subject: Re: ICO.Gov was Re: Newsletter software
>If the Government thinks it's acceptable to process our Census data in the US, I don't think we should worry too much about a list of email addresses being processed there.
If the Government decides that is their opinion alone, it should not be used as a green light for institutions to perform other actions that are not entirely similar.
>As you say all organisations should make up their own mind.
Based on the advice given to them by their own legal counsel of course.
The next big thing we have to worry about is the latest nonsense from the EU regarding cookies. If I'm reading the legislation and guidance correctly if you wish to store a cookie on a users machine - e.g. so you can "remember me" you need to get explicit consent. All well and good, but if they say no, then you can't give them a cookie to indicate that preference, you'll have to ask everyone, every time.
except, maybe...
Does this consent rule apply to every type of cookie?
The only exception to this rule is if what you are doing is 'strictly necessary' for a service requested by the user.
How on earth is anyone expected to work with that?
Does ticking a remember me box when you login mean that you're asking for a service that, in order to deliver, it *is* strictly necessary to store a cookie.
Under what circumstances would a cookie not be *strictly necessary* ?
http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/library/Privacy_and_electronic/Practical_application/advice_on_the_new_cookies_regulations.pdf
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