Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

Everything I read today suggested that this applied to long-term,
tracking, cookies that persist across restart (i.e., not session
cookies) which we don't use.

But yeah, it all reads like politicians and lawyers talking about tech
they don't understand so I'm certain that you can find people who will
argue whichever position you want.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 16:24, Steven Carmody 
<>
 wrote:
> There have been a spate of articles this week about a new EU directive that
> goes into force on May 25, governing the use of cookies.
>
> The articles have titles like
>
>> Websites will have to gain ‘explicit consent' from visitors to store
>> or access information on their computers from 25th May.
>
> the articles are even showing up in the popular press (eg the BBC news site)
>
> has anyone looked at whether the shib components that set cookies will be
> affected by this ? Presumably the answer goes like "depends on how you
> interpret XYZ".  ;-)
>
>



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