In May last year we provided an update on the new cookie law (The New Cookie Laws – Digesting the Facts) which had been implemented in the UK following an EU Directive (see also The Cookie Diet).
The extent to which consent was required from a website user was an issue that was a concern for many website operators. At the time that the law was implemented, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) had decided that any first time visitor to a website would have to explicitly consent for cookies to be used before that user could fully access the website. More…