Welcome to the Cookie Crunch Blog
This website is dedicated to the issues thrown up by recent changes in EU internet privacy law, and the potential impact they will have on the web as we know it today. As I write, these laws will come...
View ArticleThe Analytics Crunch
One part of the web economy that will potemtially be hit harder than most by the Cookie Crunch is web analytics. Web analytics tools, of which Google Analytics is the most common, are used by almost...
View ArticleCookie Collector Updated
The Cookie Collector plug-in for Firefox has been updated to version 1.1, so please download it today to continue helping us build a picture of the state of cookies on the web. The previous version...
View ArticleUK Enforcement Delayed for a Year
Yesterday, on the day that the regulations came into force in the UK, the Information Commissioners Office, responsible for ensuring compliance in the UK, announced that it will give businesses and...
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Cookie Stats Revealed
We are delighted today to be able to release a new infographic with the first analysis of statistics that we have been gathering with our Cooke Collector. Enjoy! The post Cookie Stats Revealed...
View ArticleEU Warns UK Not to Drag its Feet
According to a recent article from Reuters the EU is planning to get tough on member states that do not implement the new cookie regulations quickly enough. The UK is one of only four of the 27 member...
View ArticleCookie Collector Now Available for Chrome
We are delighted to announce that the Cookie Collector is now available as an extension for the Google Chrome browser. Plus it comes with new functionality not in the Firefox version. The Chrome...
View ArticleFacebook ‘Like’ and Other Social Buttons
There must be hundreds of thousands of websites that have the Facebook ‘Like’ button on them. If not more. Probably Facebook could tell us if they wanted. It has been a very successful way of...
View ArticleUS Not Outside the EU Cookie Law
European Commissioner Viviane Reding was in the UK this week and The Register secured an interview with her. Reding is an advocate of consumer privacy, and although she was talking about privacy in a...
View ArticleFirefox 5 Compatible Cookie Collector Released
We have today released version 1.2 of the Firefox version of the cookie Collector, making it fully compatible with Firefox 5. We urge all our users to download the new version of the plug-in today....
View ArticleThe Cookie Database is Now Open
We are delighted to announce that we have begun the process of opening up our cookie database. We have published today a new search page on the website which you can use to look up any domain and see...
View ArticleCookie Law Toolkit Beta Launched
We are very excited to announce today the first public showing of a beta version of our Cookie Law Toolkit. Visitors to our website today will notice the change to our header, with the addition of a...
View ArticleBBC Technology Blog Covers ICO Traffic Story
This story has been going round the blogs in the last few days, but with the Beeb’s own Rory Cellan-Jones stepping up to comment on it, the ICO’s drop in visitor stats is set to become an even hotter...
View ArticleIrish Law and Session Cookies
This week the Republic of Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has released the Irish government’s guidance on complying with their version of the cookie law. What is really interesting about this...
View ArticleCookies from Facebook
We have started doing some analysis on some of the websites with the biggest collections of cookies in our database. Whilst it is still early days, we think it is worth sharing what we have uncovered...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics and our Cookie Consent Tool
Much was made of the ICO’s 90% drop in visitor stats after they implemented their cookie consent solution on May 25th. We implemented our own beta tool on July 4th, and are now ready to reveal our...
View ArticleEDPS Takes a Tough Line on EU Cookie Law
I have been reading the text of a speech given by Peter Hustinx the European Data Protection Supervisor today, and his interpretation of the EU Cookie Directive will raise some concerns in some...
View ArticleDefining Consent for Cookies
The Article 29 Working Party is an advisory group to the European Commission on issues of Privacy and Data Protection, so they would have had a lot of input into the Cookie Directive while it was...
View ArticleICO Guidance on Cookie Law Fines
The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is responsible for enforcing the new cookie legislation in the UK, which it has promised to start doing from May 2012. They are currently in a public...
View ArticleConfusion at the Commission
The European Commission continues to put out conflicting messages about the cookie law, frustrating everybody who is looking for clear answers. This week has seen the publication of a written response...
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