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Posts about the ePrivacy Directive, originally (2002) regulating the activities of public networks; then amended in 2009 to regulate cookies. Most of this was rolled into the 2016 GDPR, but in 2017 a replacement ePrivacy Regulation was proposed which is still being debated in 2021…
Regulators and governments are moving towards creating a requirement that anyone who suffers a security breach affecting personal data would have to report it. A number of American states already have such laws, the recent revision of the European Telecoms Framework Directive introduced a breach notification requirement for telecoms providers and the Commissioner has stated […]
The amended EC law requiring opt-in, rather than opt-out, to non-essential cookies was criticised last week as “breathtakingly stupid” because of its implications for advert-funded sites. However advertisers have now said that they don’t think the law requires any change to current practice! So is there a problem, or not? I don’t know, but I […]
Considerable concern has been expressed about the news that it has apparently been agreed to change European law on cookies as part of the revision of the Telecoms Directives. The current law on cookies is contained in Article 5 of the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC) and Regulation 6 of the UK’s matching […]
Further to my last posting on breach notification, my attention has been drawn to a recent (22nd October 2009) draft text of the proposed Directive to amend the EC telecoms directives. As an amendment to the existing Directive 2002/58/EC the new proposals would apply in the first instance only to public telecommunications networks and services. […]