Inspired by this snippet:
…of that infographic on the original blogpost, I am honestly left wondering whether the whole thing was a conscious experiment by someone in Government to see whether it would ever be feasible to regulate systems and network administration and software architecture?
In other words: an experiment to establish whether anyone would give a damn about Government telling everyone to drive on the left-hand-side of the Internet at speeds of less than 70MPH and submit their servers to regular MOTs to ensure that they are fit for use in British cyberspace.
Rather like China tried, but less overtly.
From 2011:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/15/cookies_uk_government_implementation_of_eu_regulation/
Let me guess: the UK government got in touch with Google, the Mozilla Foundation, Apple et al, and asked them to put these facilities in.
My guess is that these RFEs were put in the RFE stack, as standard priority requests made by a single customer organisation. After all, the vendors involved are American, and 1776 was a little while ago…
These posts about the end of the cookie law are spreading too much mis-information. What we now have is a new level of certainty as to how to comply – http://www.cookielaw.org/blog/2013/2/1/ico-website-creates-new-implied-consent-reference-model.aspx
Hi Richard, Yes, you’re quite right. Or, alternately, people have stopped caring, and a law about which people don’t care is doomed.