The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 which came into effect last year has presented UK website owners with a few challenges in moving to compliance. Those of us who work on public sector websites are no exception. We wrote about some of the ways we were working towards compliance here at GOV.UK, in a previous post.
In spite of the challenges, the new regulations have pushed online privacy firmly into the spotlight and this is no bad thing. In fact this online privacy was the focus of a meeting last week of UK government website managers, developers, policy advisers and communications experts. The meeting was hosted by GDS so that people with responsibility for the operation of central government departments’ and agencies’ websites could discuss and learn from one another about some of the ways we could work towards compliance with the new regulations. (more…)
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