Good article on The Social about the the Irish Government bringing the EU cookie Directive into law. At the very least, it will probably mean putting a disclaimer on sites, if not more.
SOURCE
http://sociable.co/2011/07/03/eu-cookie-directive-guidance-issued-bad-news-for-google-analytics-users/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thesociable+%28The+Sociable%29
Some more information on this from Mason, Hayes + Curran: consent may be implied provided imformation/displaimer is provided:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mhc.ie/publications/item/477/the-cookie-crumbles/