The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29), an independent advisory body set up in 1995 under the auspices of the EU Data Protection Directive and composed of representatives of all European Data Protection supervisory authorities, has sent a public comment to the W3C about the Tracking Preference Expression (TPE), ...

The body responsible for Do Not Track (DNT), the W3C’s Tracking Protection Working Group will shortly be releasing the technical part of the standard in a process named Last Call (LC) when implementers and others can review it and make comments. Unlike other W3C standards at this stage the core ...

Baycloud Systems sets the record straight. For some time Evidon, formerly known as Better Advertising, – acquirer of the Ghostery ad blocking browser extension, have been publishing misleading information about Baycloud Systems and our CookieQ product. As they have not even bothered to reply to communications requesting them to stop ...

Internet Explorer 10 now accounts for over 70% of all requests with DNT set. The percentage of web requests with the DNT header set in our sample of European websites is approaching 13% The percentage of DNT requests coming from Chrome users remains at a much reduced level since version ...

Internet Explorer 10 compensates for declining Chrome DNT usage The number of web requests to European websites from users of Internet Explorer is approaching 4% of the total. The percentage of DNT requests coming from Chrome users has plummeted, probably since the latest version started rolling out towards the end ...

The law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse has been in the news recently in connection with the unprecedented level of lobbying activity directed against the new Data Protection Regulation, currently being debated in the European Parliament. For example see Data Protection: All You Need to Know about the EU Privacy Debate ...

European Data Protection Day Monday, Jan 28th, 2013. The number of web requests to European websites from browsers with Do Not Track set is now over 7% of the total, and rising. Take a look at our dynamic Do Not Track chart below. It is based on aggregated data collected ...

Comment to GDS blog post "It’s not about cookies, it’s about privacy" Mike O'Neill (@incloud) — 20/03/2012 It should be about respecting citizen’s privacy, not implementation convenience. The law requires web publishers not place any information that could identify a visitor on their browser unless they have been given informed ...

Our comment to Gov.UK blog post "Cookies on the Beta" The Google Analytics (__utma) cookie is no more or less “intrusive” than any other piece of inert data. It is simply a number that is unique to a visitor’s browser. The reason this is a data protection issue is that ...

Online privacy and the ePrivacy directive Website publishers should not be told to “go ahead” if they want to use cookies. The law in most European jurisdictions require that consent is obtained prior to cookie placement, and regulators across Europe are capable of enforcing it. In addition telling them that ...