ePrivacy slowed down? Analysis of French advisory document.

ePrivacy is a regulation aiming to further protect privacy in electronic communication. Think of it as a specialized GDPR. Indeed, ePrivacy is to have a precedence over GDPR in some respects. Read more on the topic in my previous posts here: ePrivacy official proposal my input during Roundtables in EU Parliament description of a final report (adopted).

Draft ePrivacy proposal of European Commission has been published over a year ago. In October, European Parliament has passed their version, which notably contained some ground-breaking recommendations: end-to-end encryption, banning of backdoors, signals such as Do Not Track as being binding, and more. Now EU Council is struggling to reach its own. Some countries already have specific positions. Here keep in mind that in European Parliament, ePrivacy was a question of rights and freedoms (to simplify: privacy). But the EU Council, ePrivacy is at the hands of a group devoted to telecommunication (so not quite privacy or data protection). So the focus is different, so are the people working on it.

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