European Union: Derogation of ePrivacy Directive to fight child sexual abuse
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Applicability of the Derogation from ePrivacy Directive to support the detection of child sexual abuse ends
On 3 April 2026, the applicability of the Derogation from the ePrivacy Directive supporting the detection of child sexual abuse ends. The derogation was extended by Regulation (EU) 2024/1307. The extension allows providers of number-independent inte…
SourceImplemented Derogation from ePrivacy Directive to support the detection of child sexual abuse
On 2 August 2021, the ePrivacy derogation enters into force. The temporary derogation concerns Articles 5(1) and 6(1) of the ePrivacy Directive, which protects the confidentiality of communications and traffic data. Specifically, the derogation allo…
SourceAdopted derogation from ePrivacy Directive to support the detection of child sexual abuse
On 14 July 2021, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the ePrivacy derogation. The temporary derogation concerns Articles 5(1) and 6(1) of the ePrivacy Directive, which protects the confidentiality of communications …
SourceEC proposal for a regulation which temporary derogates previous directive to combat child sexual abuse online
On 10 September 2020, the European Commission published a proposal for an interim regulation, which would derogate certain provisions of the previous directive 2002/58 regarding data processing rules, in order to combat child sexual abuse online. Th…
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