- On 26 May 2012, the UK government implemented amendments to the EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive. The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011 No. 1208). The amendments require web sites in the UK to get informed/implied consent from visitors to their web sites in order to store and retrieve information on users' computers.
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