Council of the EU weighs in on ePrivacy processing
As the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union wraps up this month, it put forward a new draft of the pending ePrivacy Regulation , which was considered at the Council’s WP TELE meeting held Dec. 11. While it is a new consolidated draft, with many deviations from the initial Commission draft throughout, the new pieces for consideration in this draft are limited to articles 6 through 8, which concern the legitimate bases for processing electronic communications and metadata, plus rules around the retention, storage, and deletion of user data. The stated purpose of this most recent meeting was to consider these modifications to articles 6 through 8 and then begin discussion of Article 10, which regards the provision of privacy settings in apps and communications software.