Interinstitutional negotiations on the provisional derogation from data protection rules to combat child pornography could start very soon. The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) gave its consent on Monday 7 December to the start of the discussions, which must now be validated in plenary.
This is due to the very essence of the proposed Regulation, which introduces a derogation from the confidentiality rules contained in the e-Privacy Directive in order to allow...