Rediculous Cookie Law!!

[James77]

Like me you may not have heard of the new EU law on cookies - but apparently it is illegal to use cookies on EU websites!! - Apparently came into effect on the 26th of May.

Having read a bit about it, it would be comical if it were not actually true.

Check out these refs - its staggering:
Video: http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/the-stupid-eu-cookie-law-in-2-5-minutes/
ICO making a farce of its own law: http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/current_topics/website_changes_pecr.aspx
More Info: http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/can-we-use-analytics-with-the-new-uk-cookie-law/

I'm so glad the consideral tax my cookie reliant business pays is being put to good use by a bunch of ignorant bureaucratic dicks............

[giantpeach]

An amusing take on it here: http://www.xydo.com/toolbar/15421107-eu_cookies_directive_-_what_it_means_for_you by Dave Naylor

[ReneReinholdt]

as far as I understood the law when it was voted on back in the day. It's not illegal to use cookie but you must ask the end user for his her permission first. But here is a little trick: you are not allowed to store a cookie on a clients computer. You are however allowed to store all the data you want (not true but close enough) on the server.

Enter the session cookie! here you can do whatever you want.

Another thing you could do is (if it's a community or equivalent) make your conditions of use include the rights to use the cookie.

If your doing e-commerce there is no real reason for you to store data on your shopper's computer a session cookie will do just fine.

actually when you think about it the law isn't as dumb as it first sounds like. It's there to protect the consumer not to make your life easy (and it doesn't we can agree on that