Discrepancies between proposed data protection regulation and the 2002 e-privacy...
Discrepancies between proposed data protection regulation and the 2002 e-privacy directive create inconsistent consumer experiences and rights for equivalent services and data, said the GSM Association and the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association Tuesday, urging a consistent data privacy framework…
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for industry and consumers. While policymakers may have felt the need for specific telecom privacy rules in the past, those rules no longer seem appropriate, said GSMA Europe Director Martin Whitehead. It doesn’t make sense to single out one particular sector when there’s a broad range of online service companies collecting and processing large volumes of functionally equivalent data, he said. Coexistence of the e-privacy directive and the general data protection regulation would be incompatible with technology and service neutrality, and the need to give users consistent privacy experiences, he said. If the two regulations coexist, telcos and their customers will face dual compliance requirements, which will hurt competition, said ETNO Director Daniel Pataki. Users would have to be aware of whether a service was coming from telecom operators or online service providers to assess their rights, he said. Both organizations said they welcome the overhaul of data protection rules as an opportunity to harmonize the handling of personal data across Europe.