European Union: Terminated derogation from ePrivacy Directive to support the detection of child sexual abuse
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Terminated derogation from ePrivacy Directive to support the detection of child sexual abuse
The derogation of the ePrivacy Directive ends on 3 August 2024. The temporary derogation began on 2 August 2021 and concerned Articles 5(1) and 6(1) of the ePrivacy Directive, which protects the confidentiality of communications and traffic data. Specifically, the derogation allowed voluntary use by providers of technologies for the processing of personal and other data to the extent necessary to detect, report and remove online child sexual abuse material from their services.
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Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
cross-cutting
Implementation Level
supranational
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament
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2020-09-10
under deliberation
2021-07-06
adopted
2021-08-02
in force
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