EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC)
What is EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC)?
Directive 2002/58/EC (the ePrivacy Directive) is the EU sectoral lex specialis on privacy in the electronic communications sector, alongside the GDPR (which is the lex generalis for personal data). The 2009/136/EC amendment introduced the prior-consent rule for cookies and similar storage-of-information technologies (Article 5(3)) and the security and personal-data-breach-notification regime (Article 4). It comprises 15 controls organised across 5 domains, and applies in the European Union.
How EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) maps to other frameworks
All 15 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 5 domains EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) groups its controls into
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Query EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) programmatically
EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC), its 15 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) API reference and MCP config →What EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
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