RE: European Demand for DNT

Hi Matthias,

The regulation coming into force May 2018 is the GDPR (General Data
Protection Regulation) replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive

The ePrivacy (probably a) Regulation is to replace the 2002 (amended 2009)
ePrivacy Directive, expected shortly after the GDPR comes in (probably 2019)

There was no "cookie directive", but there was an Article 5(3) in the 2009
amended ePrivacy directive which turned the 2002 "right-to-object" to
terminal (i.e. browser) storage use to a requirement for "freely given,
specific & informed" consent (i.e. an opt-in)

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Schunter (Intel Corporation) [mailto:mts-std@schunter.org] 
Sent: 23 August 2016 13:18
To: public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org) <public-tracking@w3.org>
Subject: fyi: European Demand for DNT

Hi Team,


one point we discussed during our last call was whether the EU landscape
changes and whether TPE may play a key role to simplify compliance with
the changing EU landscape.

I had an interesting discussion with Rob. What I learned is that the EU
regulators are currently pushing for more informed consent and that the
current "implied consent" for tracking and cookies may soon go away.
Another topic will be machine-managed and readable consent to simplify
consent handingl

Regulations that are upcoming (Rob: Please correct me if I remembered
correctly):
- 2018 E Privacy Regulation (replacing the 1995 privacy directive by one
EU-wide regulation)
- 2019 Cookie Regulation (replacing the 2009 cookie directive by one
EU-wide regulation)
    In September, a first draft will be published.

If web-site owners agree with these observations, then there should be
increasing demand for DNT (or other approaches for handling consent).

What I am now looking for is:
- Input from EU players whether they are indeed concerned on how to
handle automated consent
- Further requirements how W3C TPWG can simplify compliance in the EU
- Additional members of our WG that can represent this perspective and
requirements (ideally from an end-user perspective).
- I may try to visit the TPAC in Lisbon to gather more inputs.

I will try to reach out to IAB Europe (I will also discuss with EFF to
get their input on using TPE for expressing compliance with EFF rules).

Formally, I would like to postpone the re-charter discussion into
October to have more data as input for this decision (e.g. one input
will be the draft EU cookie regulation published in September).

Any inputs, suggestions, feedback are welcome!


Regards,
matthias

Received on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:56:30 UTC