ePrivacy Regulation
What is ePrivacy Regulation?
A proposed EU regulation that will replace the ePrivacy Directive, governing electronic communications privacy including cookies, direct marketing, and metadata processing.
Terms that appear alongside eprivacy regulation
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as eprivacy regulation. The number is how many controls name both.
- eprivacy directive 5 shared controls
- gdpr 5 shared controls
- consent 3 shared controls
- data protection 2 shared controls
- dark pattern 2 shared controls
- opt in consent 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern eprivacy regulation
What the standards actually require on eprivacy regulation
Requirements naming eprivacy regulation across 2 standards, quoted from the control text.
The European Commission has WITHDRAWN the proposed ePrivacy Regulation in February 2025 as part of its 2025 work-programme prioritisation. Negotiations on the proposal (COM(2017) 10 final and successor texts) had been stalled in Council for years;
ePD-Status.eRegWithdrawn · Status: proposed ePrivacy Regulation withdrawn (February 2025) →Security Dimension 8 Privacy per X.805 Clause 6.8: Privacy shields what could be inferred by watching activity on the network, for example websites visited by users + their geographic location + the IP addresses and DNS names assigned to devices inside a provi...
X805-Dim8-Privacy-Identification-Network-Activity-Personal-Information-Confidentiality · ITU-T X.805 Security Dimension 8 - Privacy + Identification of Network Activity + Personal Information Confidentiality + Subscriber Anonymity + Pseudonymity + Anti-Tracking + Location Privacy + Data Minimization + GDPR/CCPA Alignment →Questions people ask about eprivacy regulation
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