The UK's implementation of new EU e-privacy regulations has been thrown into confusion, after Culture Secretary Ed Vaizey signed an open letter saying that websites may not, after all, need to gain user consent to deploy cookies. New laws stipulate that unless a cookie is required for a service, such as online checkouts, websites must gain consent from users before dropping them onto systems. However, Vaizey's letter says the new rules do not necessarily require 'prior consent,' and that there is 'no indication ...