• Nov 25, 2019
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

EU’s ePrivacy regulation is being subverted by publishers who want their “right” to use tracking cookies enshrined in law

Last year, Privacy News Online wrote about the important EU ePrivacy legislation. As that noted, it was moving through the EU’s legislative process slowly because of massive lobbying against the new law, which aims to regulate how metadata is gathered and used, and to limit how people are tracked online, for example using cookies. A … Continue reading “EU’s ePrivacy regulation is being subverted by publishers who want their “right” to use tracking cookies enshrined in law”

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  • Sep 19, 2018
  • Derek Zimmer
  • Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Articles 11 and 13 in the New EU Copyright Directive Enable More Surveillance

Privacy activists were caught off guard last week when the EU passed its controversial copyright legislation. The new law has far reaching consequences that technical experts and internet companies alike have strongly advised would damage EU businesses and change fundamentally how the Internet works. This article is intended to show you WHY these two directives … Continue reading “Articles 11 and 13 in the New EU Copyright Directive Enable More Surveillance”

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