As Mike mentioned, analysing log files wasn't exactly the most
friendly or accurate process, and I don't want those days ever again.
If we are to follow government example, rather than the letter of the
law, then I point you at lines 772-782 of the HTML source code for
http://www.number10.gov.uk/
I also note with interest that Google are advertising on London buses
and the Tube to explain what cookies are, which is a little odd if
their use is curtailed by a law which is shortly to be enforced.
I do hope that this mess can be sorted out, but until No. 10's website
removes their Google Analytics tracking code, I'm keeping mine too.
Cheers,
Tom
Web Manager
Wessex Archaeology
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The enormous irony AFAIC is the enormous mismatch between the vast quantity of TOTALLY personal information being thrown at Facebook with the aggregate non-personal information currently being stored by tools like Google Analytics…but annnyway...
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> On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 15:08, Tony Crockford wrote:
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>> On Tue Dec 13 2011 14:46:59 Mike Ellis wrote:
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>> > Nonetheless, I'd welcome some kind of unified response. Log files nearly killed me once :-)
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>> I notice that the latest version of Firefox now has an option to "tell websites I don't want to be tracked"
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>> I'm hoping that the law will ultimately accept the users browser settings to indicate they accept, or do not accept *tracking cookies* which is the point of the directive.
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>> The fact that they somehow managed to write guidelines to include *all* cookies is all part of the problem with law.
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>> The current reaction is an indicator of all that's wrong with law making. The law abiding are bending over backwards to try and comply with something so fuzzy it's almost surreal, whereas those that the law was designed to thwart are looking for ways to track users *without* cookies.
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>> E.g. We can't browse from the same IP address for long without leaving fingerprints, and anyone that uses the same IP and the same browser on the same operating system will be leaving muddy footprints all over the place.
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>> Pattern recognition on popular sites will allow targeted advertising based on that footprint alone - no need for cookies, and the law is too late.
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>> My view is that a statement about cookies in use is a good starting point, having a pop up on every page to bar the user until they accept cookies is a nightmare - and it needs to be every page if that's how we're interpreting the law as nobody arrives on your home page and knocks politely any more.
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>> Unworkable and pointless is my humble opinion of The revised Privacy and Electronic Communications regulations, sadly I see the usual crop of money making schemes appearing.
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>> Nice summary of the shambles here:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/butterworth-and-bowcott-on-law/2011/may/27/cookie-law-shambles-web-browsers
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