Who Am I?
• Michele Neylon• Founder / CEO Blacknight • Contact: http://mneylon.tel• @mneylon• http://michele.me/blog• http://b.log.ie• And most other social networks ..
EU Cookie Law
EU Cookie Law
• What is a cookie?• What do they do?• Why are they potentially a problem?• The Cookie law and your website
Meet Cookie
What Is A Cookie?
• Small bit of text that is stored in the user’s browser
• It CANNOT carry a virus• It CANNOT carry malware• Often used for tracking user “state” eg. Logged
in or not etc• Statistics / tracking / analysis
The Nasty?
• Track user behaviour• Target users based on this• Images other media loading from 3rd party
sites (think Facebook / Twitter widgets)• Cookies from eg. Facebook *know* what
you’re doing on other sites ..
EU Law
The Law Is Here
• So you need to deal with it .. • How? (hopefully I’ll cover that!)• Why? Cos it’s the law! (Statutory Instrument
Number 336 of 2011 European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services)(Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011)
How Are We Doing?
• Espion’s report http://www.slideshare.net/krishnade/eu-cookie-directive-report-on-compliance-in-the-uk-and-ireland
• 96% of Irish sites probably don’t comply .. • Do they even have a privacy policy?• Company number? Address?
Implementation…
• Cookie “audit” – see what you’re actually using / doing (eg. http://www.cookiecert.com )
• Adapt Privacy policy (you have one, right?)– http://www.theeucookielaw.com/ handy
categories of cookie types in plain English• Integrate into site• Integrate into CMS
Example Audit Report
Tools?
• UK (and elsewhere) implemented first .. • Blogging software eg. Wordpress• Content management systems• Shopping cart software• Other
Wordpress Plugins
See http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Joomla Extensions
Taken from http://extensions.joomla.org/
Shopping Carts
• Off the shelf • SAAS – will have something (unless they’re
useless)• Most support directly or via extensions /
plugins• Inhouse developed – custom solution needed
Wizards + Tools
• Cookie Control: http://civicuk.com/cookie-law/index– Custom code– Plugins for Wordpress, Joomla, Typo3, Drupal,
Joomla, Zen Cart, Magento
Just an example (which I like) .. There are plenty of other tools out there ..
Live Sightings
RTE
• Simple banner at top of home page with link to privacy policy
BT.com – Fancy!
BT.com
In The Wild
• Econsultancy (examples) http://econsultancy.com/ie/blog/10205-20-examples-of-eu-cookie-law-compliance
• Silktide: http://silktide.com/cookieconsent/examples
• Econsultancy (types of implementation) http://econsultancy.com/ie/blog/9202-eu-cookie-law-three-approaches-to-compliance
Contact & Credits
• All contact details on http://mneylon.tel• Screenshots via respective sites• Cookie the cat appears courtesy of his owner
(@forbairt)
• Thanks!
