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Drunk in the dark on the high-wire

This is the start of a new series of posts on the themes of…

How (cookie) consent management works

This is episode six of the Great Cookie Conundrum series, and we’re getting down to business. We’ve seen a few good and bad implementations in previous posts, but if you looking at using a cookie control/management tool on your website, what do you need to look…

Judgement day

In episode five of the Great Cookie Conundrum series I get opinionated. “Oh at last!” you cry. It’s a quick trip of a variety of bad…

Giving back control

In the fourth post in the Great Cookie Conundrum series we’ll get explicit about what you need to do to make your site one of the good guys, and what’s more to make it legal.

In previous posts we looked at how the use of cookies and related tech is affected by GDPR…

Technologists and ethos

Recently Koven Smith blogged a thought-provoking article that he’d contributed to Museum about the seeming absence of ethical concerns from too many decisions about the use of technology in museums. “At museums”, he wrote, “technologists once built solutions largely from scratch; now…

Sugar and spice and slugs and snails

In this post, the third in the “Great Cookie Conundrum” series, I will look at just how cookies and other potentially privacy-leaching technology get onto web pages. Full list of posts at the end of the page.