With all the focus on Brexit and the California Consumer Privacy
Act (CCPA), there has not been much published about the draft
e-Privacy regulation recently. Readers will remember that there had
been plans to implement this companion legislation (which covers
specific issues regarding cookies and direct marketing among other
things), at the same time as the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR). However, since the draft proposals proved (rightly) so
controversial, this did not happen and the drafts have been
chugging their way through compromise debates and revisions ever
since.
Although some have begun to think that we may never see the
legislation come to fruition, in fact there has been quite a lot of
progress in the last six months. It is possible that a draft could
be finalised by the EU Council by the summer (although it will
still then need finalising with the EU Parliament and input from
the European Commission).
