Cookie Law

I'm curious about how the law applies for non-compliant web sites hosted outside the EU by non-EU citizens. Presumably you'd be breaking the law if a EU visitor visits your site, but what would be the options for enforcement?


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@microcipcip yeah agree it's a pretty pointless law, but have had a bit of work out of it because of it

@bobray yeah i think it's going to be pretty much impossible to enforce outside of the EU, especially to small companies. A lot of government here in the UK aren't even complying so they can't really expect others to. I think they will just mainly target the larger organisations.

Usually, when something this big gets passed, it's because some politically powerful group wanted it. In this case, I can't figure out who would benefit enough to make it worth the effort.


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Bob, here in Europe government is an industry and it needs a constant stream of fresh topics to feed the legions of bureaucrats. Having failed to enforce ‘straight bananas’, cookies probably seemed like an easy target. Anyhow in most of Europe they ignore European laws whereas in the UK we’re an obedient bunch and try to observe the spirit of cricket. But even in the UK they’ve backed down and it’s now no longer necessary to have a pop-up to ask if you want cookies and it’s adequate to assume implied consent, that if a user is using your site they’re ok accepting your cookies, provided you have a cookie policy somewhere on site.

The EU are now turning their attention to making moustaches illegal for non-residents visiting the EU.

Well, they do seem to be amusing themselves slapping Microsoft around. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/17/1925247/eu-investigating-microsoft-over-ie-bundling-again

Quote from: sparkyhd at Jul 18, 2012, 02:18 AM

The EU are now turning their attention to making moustaches illegal for non-residents visiting the EU.

It seems that they have a questionable list of priorities, considering that many countries are in deep recession

http://nocookielaw.com/

The cookie law is plain stupid. It is like Windows Vista prompt "Windows need your permission to continue", where you end up clicking "yes!" for everything you see on the screen.

The difference is that in Windows Vista/7, clicking "no" actually means "no". If a website doesn't ask for permission or "mistakes" you clicking no for yes, it sets the cookie anyway.

I agree with one thing tho: these cookie laws are plain stupid. Nobody benefits, businesses that need to be innovating end up spending money prepping their sites and everyone still sets cookies anyhow.

We've got some clients requesting us to remove cookies or ask permission as well. On a particular site we don't use cookies at all, only the PHPSESSID cookie is set. Since we don't really need the function to view unpublished pages we are thinking about disabling it.

There is an option to disable sessions completely for front-end Contexts though, when no session capabilities are required for a site.

I cannot find this option in the System Settings. Anyone know where I can find it?

You can't set this in System Settings; you need to set it in the Settings for the front-end Context( s ) you want to be session-less. The back-end of MODX will not work without a session.

See http://develop.modx.com/blog/2012/04/05/new-for-2.2.1-session-less-contexts/ for more information.

Ah I see, thank you opengeek!