Last year, we wrote that the e-Privacy Regulation was becoming a headache for the European Union and we wondered aloud whether the regulation would ever come into being. The latter now seems to be a step closer. The European Commission (‘EC’) published a revised text proposal on 5 January 2021 and not long afterwards, on
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the e-Privacy Regulation: situation in 2020
The e-Privacy Regulation (the ‘Regulation’) seems to have become a never ending story for the European Union. The Regulation aims to modernize the rules for traditional telecom companies and to extend the scope of application to new communication services such as Skype, Whatsapp and Facebook. The Regulation also gives conditions for placing cookies, direct marketing
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In the so-called Planet49-judgment (C-673/17) the Court of Justice of the EU (hereafter: ‘the Court’) recently ruled on the way in which consent for the storage of tracking cookies must be granted by a website visitor. Below you will find a desciption of the most important points from this judgment and is discussed what this
