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The EU Council finally managed to adopt a position on widespread new data protection rules on Wednesday (10 February), as part of the so-called ePrivacy regulation, although Germany and Austria abstained from voting and Berlin’s data protection authority called for ‘significant changes’ to the text.
The 27 EU nations will now enter into talks with representatives from the European Parliament on the plans, which are expected to be fiercely contested.
The ePrivacy regulation details the conditions under which service providers are able to process electronic communications data. Such data includes those transmitted in the use of online services, including messages sent on WhatsApp and video calls on platforms such as Zoom and Skype, for example.