The European Union has concluded plans to seek put forward stiffer measures to restrict Messaging services such as Skype, WhatsApp and others, on how they handle customer data.

The Guild gathered that the new measure would be put forward soon during the regional association’s meeting either before the end of the year or early next year.

With the proposed measures, web services will have to guarantee the confidentiality of communications and obtain users’ consent to process their location data, mirroring similar provisions included in a separate data protection law due to come into force in 2018.

The EU executive wants to extend some rules that now only apply to telecom operators to web companies offering calls and messages using
the internet, known as “Over-The-Top” (OTT) services, according to the draft.

Telecoms firms have long complained that companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft and Facebook are more lightly regulated, despite offering similar services.

http://www.theguildng.com/?p=10671

Hmmm

Nice move by EU. common NCC want to keeh somebori. Lord save us.