EU publishes revised draft ePrivacy Regulation
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union on 21 February 2020 published revised text of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation (Regulation concerning the Respect for Private Life and the Protection of Personal Data in Electronic Communications and Repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications)).
New draft introduces the possibility to process metadata for legitimate interests, as well as to use the processing and storage capabilities of terminal equipment, and to collect information from end-users’ terminal equipment when it is necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by the service provider, except when such interest is overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the end-user. That is big change compared to existing regulation requiring user’s consent.
