On 10 January, the European Commission presented a proposal for a Regulation concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in electronic communications, aimed at repealing Directive 2002/58/EC . This proposal for a Regulation updates the legislation currently in force, providing better protection of confidentiality in electronic communications – including through the alignment of legislation with the new world-class standard provided in the recent EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – and consequently contributing to the creation of new useful tools to facilitate international data exchanges in the digital economy, and therefore to the development of the digital single market. We publish here the article written by Maria Roberta Perugini and published on the English web-based legal forum "Lexology":
