TJ McIntyre writes:
There are just a few days left if you wish to comment on the Department of Communications proposals for implementation of the Telecoms Reform Package.
While there’s quite a lot contained in the five sets of proposed regulations, the portions of most interest to me are the proposals regarding the revised E-Privacy Directive (.doc) which will implement a requirement for data breach notification along with new rules regarding cookies.
Curiously enough, there hasn’t been much public debate in Ireland about the impact of the new rules regarding cookies – unlike the UK, where a similar implementation (which essentially copies and pastes text directly from the Directive) has been particularly controversial.
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