Tag Archives: European-based web sites

Strategies for Compliance with EU “Cookies” Directive

By Gerald J. Ferguson on January 23, 2012 Posted in International Privacy Law, Online Privacy

Reports of the demise of Internet innovation in the UK, as a result of the UK’s implementation last May of the new European Directive governing the use of “cookies” , were greatly exaggerated. That said, the impact of the Cookies Directive was delayed when the UK Information Privacy Office (“IPO”) announced that it would abstain … Continue Reading

Are the Cookies Crumbling?

By Gerald J. Ferguson on May 24, 2011 Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law, Online Privacy

Although the world did not come to the end on Saturday, as one millennial group had predicted, some in Europe worry that the end is near for European Internet start-ups when the new EU cookie directive goes into effect on May 25, 2011. The concern is that European-based web sites will become littered with pop-up … Continue Reading