The Romanian Presidency's provisional agendas for Council meetings, during the first semester of 2019 (from 1 January to 30 June) have been published. Both the General Approach of the Regulation on ePrivacy and Electronic Communications (aka the #ePrivacy Regulation) and the Proposal for a Regulation establishing the European Center for competences and research in cybersecurity and the network ...
In early September the Council reviewed the draft of the new e-Privacy Regulation (“EPR”) - previously published by the European Commission on 10 January 2017 - which allows the use of first-party and third-party analytic cookies without express consent of the end-user. Among other changes to the new EPR, the Council has proposed amendments to Article 8, concerning ...
The Draft Opinion from Rapporteur MEP Kaja Kallas (ITRE) welcomes the change of legal instrument from a Directive to a Regulation, the extension of its scope, and the Commission's attempt to be technologically neutral, but proposes several amendments to the Draft ePrivacy Regulation. Specific qualms from the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy include provisions on tracking and ...
Yesterday (24 April 2017) the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published Opinion 6/2017 on the Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications. The Opinion stresses the importance of the Proposal and the fact that European data protection regulation would be incomplete without an instrument that governs the confidentiality of communications as protected under Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The ...
This is the first blog of a series of posts which will explore aspects of the ePrivacy Regulation adopted on 10 January 2017 which aims to provide stronger privacy protections in electronic communications. On 10 January 2017 the European Commission adopted the Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications (the Draft ePrivacy Regulation) concerning ...
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