{"id":2013161,"date":"2011-04-03T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T07:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/how-can-we-control-cookies-with-new-eu-legislation\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T23:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T23:27:01","slug":"how-can-we-control-cookies-with-new-eu-legislation","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/how-can-we-control-cookies-with-new-eu-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"How can we control cookies with new EU legislation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 25th May in Europe it becomes illegal for any website owner to set a cookie without the PRIOR explicit permission of the visitor. That means when an individual first visits a website that uses cookies they will have to agree to accept the cookies if they wish to use the site. If they refuse the cookies the site becomes blocked. <\/p>\n<p>According to the legislators at the EU, this helps protect privacy.<\/p>\n<p>But how can this be implemented within WordPress?<\/p>\n<p>As I see it, anyone running a WordPress site which is accessed by people in Europe after 25th May will be doing so illegally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2013161","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-cookie","topic-tag-eu","topic-tag-illegal"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2013161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2013161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}