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Hi guys,

Due to the European law coming into force at the moment banning all cookies that don’t have implicit user permission, I’m wondering if Ellislab have plans to allow cookies to be disabled for visitors (something that doesn’t appear to be possible without core file hacking currently)?

One of our higher profile clients is a large legal firm and they are clearly nervous at the moment that they aren’t currently compliant with the law.

http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/blog/2011/half-term-report-on-cookies-compliance.aspx

Cheers,
Steve.

Hi Steve Abraham,

Wow, I can see where that would be cause for concern. My suggestion at this time is to echo those concerns in the Feature Request forum. In the meantime, I will escalate this to the developers to make sure they are aware of this.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

Thanks Dan. It’s kinda our light version of SOPA… I really don’t see long term how it’s at all enforceable, but either way it *is* now law and compliance will be mandatory within the next 6 months.

Afternoon Steve,

We’ve reached the discussion stage on it- it was already on our radar.  We haven’t started coding on it, and our plans aren’t currently firmed up, but we do know the deadline is looming.  But yes- we do intend to give our users a way to comply with the cookie requirement.  At least on the frontend, EE will need to be able to run cookie free, and I’m thinking some posts on different ways to honor the requirement will likely be needed as well.  And yes- right now, there’s no way to totally disable cookie setting.

Thanks Robin, appreciate the update.

Thanks for the heads up- if we weren’t already on it, we would be now.  Definitely something we’ll need to address sooner rather than later!