The EU e-Privacy Directive and subsequent ICO guidance is complicated and confusing enough when you look at desktop sites alone, but then there’s the question of how it translates to mobile.
To recap: the ‘cookie law’ covers the use by businesses of information stored on users’ ‘terminal equipment’ and this covers mobile sites and apps as well as desktop sites.
In a new white paper, Mark Brill from the DMA has bravely attempted to untangle some of the issues around mobile and the cookie law.
I’ve looked at some of the recommendations from the report, and the threat that the e-Privacy Directive poses to mobile marketing and m-commerce…