Are UK libraries finding their catalogues able to cope with the new cookie regulations?

We are currently investigating our websites and services for compliance with the new regulations. I'm wondering if others have performed a similar audit and can report on any problems with their OPAC, Discovery service or any other element of their LMS stack.

Has anyone had a response from their LMS vendor on this issue (pro-active or otherwise?)

Ed Chamberlain

• software
• privacy
• website

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• Peter Murray: For non-U.K. readers wondering about this question, this article may help: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/uk-8216cookie-law-takes-effect-what-you-need-to-know/4910
• Joe: If you have a way of inserting arbitrary javascript on a page, you might be able to do something like JISC has with their pop-up message.

Answer by Ed Summers

This isn't an LMS, but I did happen to notice on Twitter that the British Museum have a page up about the cookies in use on their web properties.

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Answer by Joe Atzberger

To me the telling features are:

1. Currently, no penalty, no enforcement. Perhaps because...

2. UK Government websites (amongst others) almost uniformly non-compliant.

See: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/uk-8216cookie-law-takes-effect-what-you-need-to-know/4910

My own opinion is that the law is obviously stupid. If the user does not intend to accept cookies, by all means, disable them in the browser.

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