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We are currently investigating our websites and services for compliance with the new regulations. I'm wondering if others have performed a similar audit and can report on any problems with their OPAC, Discovery service or any other element of their LMS stack.

Has anyone had a response from their LMS vendor on this issue (pro-active or otherwise?)

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For non-U.K. readers wondering about this question, this article may help: zdnet.com/blog/london/… – Peter Murray May 30 '12 at 12:00
If you have a way of inserting arbitrary javascript on a page, you might be able to do something like JISC has with their pop-up message. – Joe May 31 '12 at 19:35

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To me the telling features are:

  1. Currently, no penalty, no enforcement. Perhaps because...

  2. UK Government websites (amongst others) almost uniformly non-compliant.

See: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/uk-8216cookie-law-takes-effect-what-you-need-to-know/4910

My own opinion is that the law is obviously stupid. If the user does not intend to accept cookies, by all means, disable them in the browser.

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This isn't an LMS, but I did happen to notice on Twitter that the British Museum have a page up about the cookies in use on their web properties.

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