Just a small reminder for those in Europe you will need to add this to your website, it is a pop up and annoying but be it so.

Cookie law: websites must seek consent from this weekend.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18194235

Such a great way to spend tax dollars. Patrol the Internet and make sure people have that on the site. Geeze....

In England we have a year still to do so but taking into account the fine for not doing so is up to £500,000 it may be worth paroling the web

Another reason why I emigrated

How odd, since The People within so-called democracies theoretically have the power to rescind such nonsense. It's just as my favorite political-economic writer, Bill Bonner, says: "Under democracy, the people get the government they deserve."

There is money to be made in helping people and companies with compliance problems. As Big-G Government expands and becomes ever more intrusive (Gee, I think I'm exposing my libertarian bent here.), The People need assistance and protection from it, and many will pay for that.

I live in Massachusetts, particularly intrusive among the 50 United States of America. A pal who is a mid-level government functionary points out that crazy laws and regulations are burdensome not only to citizens but also to various government bureaucracies. Unfunded mandates galore! He suggests picking a served market (i.e., a municipality, a state or the entire nation), subscribing to registers (public information) that describe new regulations shortly to come on line, and then building and marketing applications that can assist the affected bureaucrats and/or the citizens.

Yes, it is rather disgusting, isn't it?

Poppycock.

This law came into effect at the end of May 2012 and a lot of UK and European websites now have little pop ups asking you whether you accept cookies etc and goes on to explain what cookies they set etc.
Does anyone know whether it applies to all websites big, small, those with shops, little hobby websites etc etc.
From what I have read so far it seems to even include sites that use Google analytics just to monitor where there viewers come from.

It all seems mighty confusing to me but don't really want to fall foul of the law and then again don't want to have add something if its not needed.

I really don't know what to reply, but I think this is pertaining only to UK so far. But it's a stupid law, and I don't see how they will be able to check if it is being abided with.

Hi Inger, from what I have read, the UK delayed it for a year from 2011 it is actually already theoretically law in the rest of the EU, but I agree it is a ridiculous law.

This article may help http://gigaom.com/europe/cookie-law-explainer/

Thanks for putting my post with the others, I had searched but did not find!