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
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What the standards actually require on eprivacy regulation
Requirements naming eprivacy regulation across 5 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The European Commission has WITHDRAWN the proposed ePrivacy Regulation in February 2025 as part of its 2025 work-programme prioritisation.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ePD-Status.eRegWithdrawn · Status: proposed ePrivacy Regulation withdrawn (February 2025) →Greece Law 4624/2019 crosswalk to adjacent EU + Member State frameworks. EU GDPR + LEDP: Law 4624/2019 transposes/implements both directly; Greek-specific provisions supplement + do not override GDPR core.
GR-DPA-Crosswalk-EU-Adjacent-MemberStates · Greece Law 4624/2019 Crosswalk to GDPR, LEDP, EU Adjacent Frameworks and Member State Implementations →Italian Personal Data Protection Code (Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali) Legislative Decree No. 196 of 30 June 2003 + subsequently amended by Legislative Decree No.
ItalyCodice-Scope-LegDec196-2003-Amendment101-2018-GDPR-Implementation-Garante-Constitution-Art21 · Italy Codice Privacy Scope - Legislative Decree No. 196 of 30 June 2003 (Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali) + Amendment by Legislative Decree No. 101 of 10 August 2018 + GDPR Implementation in Italy + Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali + Italian Constitution Article 21 + Civil Code Article 6 →Security Dimension 8 Privacy per X.805 Clause 6.8: Privacy provides protection of information that might be derived from the observation of network activities.
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 →Luxembourg LDP Multilingual Information and Communication Obligations + Electronic Marketing and Cookies. Luxembourg requires privacy notices and communications with data subjects in: (a) Luxembourg's three official languages (Luxembourgish + French + German);...
LU-LDP-Multilingual-Information-Communication-Marketing-Cookies-Direct-LU-DPA-Multilingual-Marketing · Luxembourg LDP Multilingual + Marketing + Cookies + Multilingual Information Communication →Questions people ask about eprivacy regulation
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