17 November 2023 On 15 November 2023, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted guidelines on the technical scope of the “tracing” provisions of the ePrivacy Directive. These guidelines are subject to a six-week consultation period. Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive guarantees users and subscribers protection of their terminals against any unwanted access or storage of information. It makes such operations subject to consent, unless they fall within specific use cases. This article is transposed into the French Data…
Read moreITALIAN SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: COOKIES: new guidelines in order to protect users
Cookies: the Italian Data Protection Authority has shared new guidelines in order to protect users. It says no to scrolling and cookies walls except under specific cases, reiterations limits to the consent request The Italian Data Protection Authority has approved new guidelines on cookies, with the purpose of reinforce the decision-making power of users concerning the usage of their personal data when they are browsing online. The provision has been adopted by keeping in mind the exits of the public…
Read moreGREEK SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: administrative sanction imposed to a parliamentary candidate for an illicit processing of personal data for political communication purposes by sending e-messages
The authority, with the decision n. 19/2021, has examined a claim against a candidate to political election of July 2019 on political communications which were not requests during the electoral period of the elections, as well as the general practice followed by the complainant on political communication by email without a human intervention. By keeping in mind the article 11 of the Law n. 3471/2006, the Directive 1/2010 of the Authority on political communication, guidelines of the Authority of the…
Read morePORTUGESE SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY: EUROPEAN DATA PROTECTION BOARD CRITICIZES THE CURRENT TEXT DEL EPRIVACY REGULATION
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) last week approved a Statement on the ePrivacy Regulation, concerning privacy in electronic communications, in which it criticises the text currently on the table and which corresponds to the “Council position”. In Declaration 3/2021, the European Board expresses its concern about the retention of telecommunications data for the purposes of criminal investigation and national security, stressing that the regulation cannot derogate from the latest case law of the Court of Justice, which considered that…
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