SECTORAL POLICIES / Digital

E-privacy, MEPs want to ban cookie walls

Brussels, 19/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

On Thursday 19 October, MEPs on the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee adopted their negotiating position on the protection of privacy in e-communications ('e-privacy').  All the compromise amendments were adopted, including default parameters and the ban on tracking walls (see EUROPE 11886).

The report, prepared by Marju Lauristin (S&D, Estonia), reflects the European Parliament’s negotiating position for talks with the other institutions and was adopted by 31 to 25.  It...