The new draft of the ePrivacy Regulation introduces substantial changes. The final approval still appears far to happen, but companies may start to get ready.
The position of the European Court of Justice in the Planet 49 case on consent required for the acceptance of cookies might impact the approach previously validated by the Italian data protection authority on the matter.
Cookies privacy consent under the GDPR was tested in the opinion of the EU Advocate General on the Planet49 case, opening interesting questions on the current regime.
The prohibition ordered to Facebook by the Belgian Privacy Commission to track users without an account might have an impact on all social media and websites.
New Italian privacy cookies rules will come into force on the 2nd of June 2015 requiring relevant technical andย content changes to ecommerce, gaming, news, etc.ย Internet sites.
Device fingerprinting is replacing cookies for analytics and tracking purposes, but privacy regulators now held that their usage is subject to the privacy consent, unless exemptions apply.
