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The updated Directive 2002/58/EC is meant to be replaced by the proposed “Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications¹⁰”, published in January 2017 and updated many times since. The regulation details the rules regarding the protection of personal data in electronic communications. The proposed changes will bring the e-Privacy Directive (then ePrivacy Regulation) in line with the GDPR.

The ePrivacy Regulation in particular targets the processing of data about the communication of data and the processing of metadata. Article 8 deals with “the protection of information stored in and related to end-user’s terminal equipment”, i.e. with cookies, but also with spyware, hidden identifiers, web bugs and “device fingerprinting”, etc. The original intention of the Commission was for the ePrivacy Regulation to enter into force on May 25, 2018, at the same time as the GDPR it interacts with. There is, however, still an ongoing discussion on various details of the regulation in almost monthly meetings.

Regarding the use of tracking, online identifiers, profiling and other methods to gather information on users visiting websites, the GDPR sets clear rules which will be explained in Chapter 7.