ePrivacy Directive

Directive European Union · 2002

The ePrivacy Directive governs privacy in electronic communications across the European Union, regulating the confidentiality of communications, traffic data, and — most relevantly for network APIs — location data. It sits alongside the GDPR as the sector-specific regime for communications providers, and generally requires consent before location or traffic data may be processed for value-added services.

Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

Regions

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.

Implemented by these standards

A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.