Considerable concern has been expressed about the news that it has apparently been agreed to change European law on cookies as part of the revision of the Telecoms Directives.
The current law on cookies is contained in Article 5 of the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC) and Regulation 6 of the UK’s matching Privacy [...]
Further to my last posting on breach notification, my attention has been drawn to a recent (22nd October 2009) draft text of the proposed Directive to amend the EC telecoms directives.
As an amendment to the existing Directive 2002/58/EC the new proposals would apply in the first instance only to public telecommunications networks and services. However, [...]
The European Commission, Parliament and Council of Ministers have been discussing revisions to the package of Telecoms Directives for a couple of years, but now seem to be approaching a final conclusion. Once the new Directives are published, member states will have a fixed time period – normally 18 months – in which to implement [...]