Defined terms — Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications)
European Union · 32002L0058 · 176 provisions
7 defined in this instrument.
call — a connection established by means of a publicly available telephone service allowing two-way communication in real time (e)
communication — any information exchanged or conveyed between a finite number of parties by means of a publicly available electronic communications service. This does not include any information conveyed as part of a broadcasting service to the public over an electronic communications network except to the extent that the information can be related to the identifiable subscriber or user receiving the information (d)
electronic mail — any text, voice, sound or image message sent over a public communications network which can be stored in the network or in the recipient's terminal equipment until it is collected by the recipient (h)
location data — any data processed in an electronic communications network, indicating the geographic position of the terminal equipment of a user of a publicly available electronic communications service (c)
traffic data — any data processed for the purpose of the conveyance of a communication on an electronic communications network or for the billing thereof (b)
user — any natural person using a publicly available electronic communications service, for private or business purposes, without necessarily having subscribed to this service (a)
value added service — any service which requires the processing of traffic data or location data other than traffic data beyond what is necessary for the transmission of a communication or the billing thereof (g)