At work, I have been given the assignment to write my professional opinion about the handling of cookies on my employer’s websites, and come up with a recommendation. That is probably not the most glamorous assignment during my career, the reason being there are very few who like the consequences of following the cookie law. Namely, chapter 6, § 18 of the Swedish Electronic Communications Act (2003: 389, LEK) as it is part of. What you hear most often is that people complain that they probably cannot keep Google Analytics, a third party functionality that 81% of the municipalities used when I researched it last spring. Given that the law in its current form is over four years old, it is probably time to stop hesitating.
The European cookie law explained
