New Guidelines on Fingerprinting

Tara, Nick,

don't know whether you've seen it. The European Data protection board 
has issued a new/updated recommendation on fingerprinting based on the 
Art. 5 (3) of the ePrivacy Directive.

The EDPB seems to argue that all information in the terminal equipment 
falls under Art. 5 (3), not only personal information. And consequently 
accessing that information is only legal under the preconditions 
enumerated in Art. 5 (3). Which means any collection of the number of 
fonts or other fingerprinting information falls under this Article.

It remains to be seen whether the courts will follow that argumentation.

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/guidelines/guidelines-22023-technical-scope-art-53-eprivacy-directive_en


  -- Rigo