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[jimac]

Considering that this law came into effect on 26th May 2011

Didn't it delayed by a year in the hope that it would evolve into something less nonsensical to allow site owners time to implement it?

No, it became law on 26th May 2011 but a period of grace of one year was allowed for web site owners to implement the changes.  So, although no prosecutions would have been made the law was still in place.  Of course, the ICO can now reasonably say that web sites have had a year to comply and therefore go after noncompliant sites with gusto!

[Rods2]

My lad is in the process of building me a basic website for the business.
Nothing flash, just a few details and a little bit of advertiseing for me.

Is this going to affect me in any way ?

Depends if the site uses any cookies and how it uses them.

[tigers_gonads]

My lad is in the process of building me a basic website for the business.
Nothing flash, just a few details and a little bit of advertiseing for me.

Is this going to affect me in any way ?

Depends if the site uses any cookies and how it uses them.

How would I find out ?
(please note, I know slightly more then break all when it comes to computing  )

[TheBoy]

My lad is in the process of building me a basic website for the business.
Nothing flash, just a few details and a little bit of advertiseing for me.

Is this going to affect me in any way ?

Depends if the site uses any cookies and how it uses them.

How would I find out ?
(please note, I know slightly more then break all when it comes to computing  )

Accept that any site does use cookies in some form

[Kevin Wood]

Accept that any site does use cookies in some form

.. which is why the legislation is so daft.

Saying yes to cookies because any site needs at least a session cookie to interact with you properly also opens you up to being tracked by google, @rsebook, idiotter, every ad site going, etc.

Now, if they just required permission for 3rd party / tracking cookies it might be more useful because the site could actually function without you agreeing to get cookied.

Not that most users give a damn. Just had to spend a long evening cleaning up a relatives brand new Win 7 machine which was completely owned due to them just clicking the "yeah, whatever" button every time a UAC notification popped up. Not sure why anyone thinks this cookie thing is going to be any more useful?

Those who do give a damn are already blocking anyone they don't expressly want a cookie from, of course, so why bother at all?

[TheBoy]

Now, if they just required permission for 3rd party / tracking cookies it might be more useful because the site could actually function without you agreeing to get cookied.

That often has legitimate uses as well (and is incredibly easy to work around if use is less than scrupulous). In OOF World, the Shop could potentially use 3rd party session cookies between the shop and the clearing house (PayPal in our case)

[Kevin Wood]

Now, if they just required permission for 3rd party / tracking cookies it might be more useful because the site could actually function without you agreeing to get cookied.

That often has legitimate uses as well (and is incredibly easy to work around if use is less than scrupulous). In OOF World, the Shop could potentially use 3rd party session cookies between the shop and the clearing house (PayPal in our case)

True..    But in kicking this can around for a few minutes I think we've already done a better job that the ICO, and who knows how many millions they've thrown at it?