The European Commission has changed and strengthened security rules for electronic communications. It focused mainly on limiting surveillance features in services WhatsApp, Facebook, Skype, Gmail, and some services at Applu. The measures were presented under the title "Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications".
The regulation aims to "strengthen trust and security in the Digital Single Market" and brings standards in line with the European data protection reform legislation. According to Vice-President Frans Timmermans, the proposals are intended to complement the data protection framework within the European Union. The proposal specifically names services WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Gmail, iMessage and Viber as examples of “electronic communications services” that will be affected by new rules in the interest of “increasing the protection of people’s privacy.”
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Key proposals include rules to protect all electronic communications. The content of messages and information about the time and date they were sent should remain private unless the user approves otherwise. Said information may be used, for example, for invoicing purposes. According to the European Commission, these measures will bring clear benefits to users.
The warning should also be changed cookies, or rather requiring consent to them – on websites this notice could be less conspicuous and annoying. “The proposal clarifies that in some cases consent to cookies. For a website that counts visitors that have already been visited in the past, they will not be required.”
But the proposal also includes an interesting number of large companies whose operations it will also affect. Google is known for using user accounts for marketing and other tracking purposes, the same is alleged about Facebook MessengerThese practices should be addressed in the future.
Source: V3.co.uk
