BBC takes common sense approach to EU Cookie law (healthywebsites.co.uk)

A lot has been said regarding the new eu cookie law in the last year and month especially as the legislation comes in to effect tomorrow, May the 26th 2012

In the new 1.7 version of Magento Community release “A new cookie notification feature that simplifies the compliance process. Once enabled, a message at the top of the storefront informs site visitors about the cookie policy and prompts them to accept or decline”

BT were early in their adoption of providing a solution by showing a popup at the bootom of their webpage

http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-943-197kb.jpg

which disapears after about 10 secs.

At time of writing, the website for the “Information Commisioners Office” which has spearheaded this campaign was unavailable for reference having been put in a redirect loop, it is unknown at this time if the site was the subject of a hack or just an IT Server admin blunder http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-e23-53kb.jpg

They were however back online 20 mins latter, sporting their persistant header message: http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-4l0-57kb.jpg

Upon looking at the bbc news website this morning, although greeted with a header message to address the issue, on further investigation it transpires that the bbc have implemented a measured and adequate response to this new legislation.

http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-l8i-99kb.jpg

Load the next page or reload the current page, and the cookie message is gone.

http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-7ls-81kb.jpg

Ironically, the BBC are actually using a cookie called “ckns_policy” to hide this grey header on the next page load. If You delete the cookie, the cookie message appears again.