You replying to my post on SMF reminded me - did ICO ever reply to your well thought-out email? If so, was it quite simply the web equivalent of RTFM? ::)
My reason for posting an implementation of geoIP functionality to determine if the use of cookies needs visitor approval or not was twofold:
My reason for posting an implementation of geoIP functionality to determine if the use of cookies needs visitor approval or not was twofold:
- I'm a 60+ year-old non-programmer (by your standards!) and am completely self-taught. I've never written a line in PHP before and I wanted to see if I could do it and make it work. The result is probably very amateurish but it does work as advertised.
- There is quite some hostility and resistance to this law generally being expressed in various SMF threads and I thought that this might possibly encourage those EU-based Admins who are concerned at not pissing-off their non-EU visitors into actually making their sites compliant. Of course it's entirely up to them if they choose to implement the geoIP side with the attendant risks that has.