As planned, on Friday 19 December the European Commission presented a new two-year extension of Regulation 2021/1232 on a “temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC as regards the use of technology by providers of interpersonal communication services (...) to combat the sexual abuse of children online”.
More specifically, it is a derogation from certain provisions of the ePrivacy Directive to combat online child sexual abuse.
Under this derogation, which was...