Project 550 Cookie GDPR Review 2020

It has been a while since we did our last cookie (and other tracking technologies) review. The University has changed its guidance on them, we should make sure our sites comply with the latest guidance for GDPR compliance.

Project being tracked at: https://computing.projects.inf.ed.ac.uk/550/

Initial Thoughts

• a clear page on what is covered
• not just cookies, pixel tracking for example
• Both of the above could go on an updated CookiesGuidance
• irish gov report (PDF) on their sweep and use of tracking tech, and GDPR.

Some links/pointers

• Recent-ish Uni website blog post on cookies - https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/uoe-cookie-approach/
• Uni web end user cookie page - https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website/privacy -> https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website/privacy/cookies-we-use/types-of-cookies/strictly-necessary-cookies
• our old blog posts from 2012 - https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/2012/02/16/cookies-and-similar-technologies/ https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/2012/05/21/homepages-inf-and-groups-inf-cookie-crawl/

-- NeilBrown - 22 Jun 2020