Posts by TheCookieCollective

German watchdog rips off Facebook's thumbs after online fracas

Good, but not quite right

Surely a better approach - and one that the cookie law promotes, is for the websites in the first place obtaining permission from users, to include the like buttons. Then they can be added to the page dynamically and all is well.

Its not that difficult.

Want to avoid another cookie law mess? Talk to EU bods next time

Re: Reason at last

Google 'New EU Data Protection Regulation' - lots of negotiation going on at the moment between governments and the EU on the wording of this.

look for 'explicit consent', 'right to be forgotten', right of data portability.

Reason at last

There has been a lot of hyperbole about this - and it is good to see a more reasoned approach.

The EU law was written in 2009 - the time to complain about it was before then. Now it is too late. And whose fault is that? Mostly it is the digital industry itself that failed to engage over growing concerns over privacy.

Now we have some new data protection laws being drafted which could actually make things even harder for website owners - who of the complainers has even tried to get involved in that debate?

The cookie law was intended to improve privacy. The way it has been implemented in the UK at least, has not really lived up to this ideal.

Maybe it is time for our industry to stop moaning, and start asking itself what can be done to improve privacy, comply with the law, without breaking the web that we have.

It should not be that difficult. Just channel some of that pointless negativity into practical action.