I saw this discussed in my Twitter feed today, so second-third-hand account is that the update has been in the works for almost a decade, being fought tooth and nail by the same companies that fight any other privacy initiative.

Hearsay and rumors, so don't take this seriously

Ah yeah, this is what I came across earlier when looking for the full 2002 text: "Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications and repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications)"

But it's from 2017... https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?darkschemeov...

(If the twitter discussion was interesting, any suggested accounts to follow for this sort of topic?)

It was a couple of acquaintances discussing GDPR :)

I guess you'd want follow

- Felix Reda https://twitter.com/Senficon (former European MP for the Purate Party)

- NOYB EU https://twitter.com/NOYBeu (fighting the GDPR fight)

- Max Schrems https://twitter.com/maxschrems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems)

These are more or less the usual suspects you'd follow :)

Cheers :)