Defined in the law · ePrivacy Directive Art. 2(d)
Communication
In plain English
Any information exchanged between a limited number of parties through a public electronic communications service. Broadcasting to the public is excluded unless linked to an identifiable subscriber or user.
The definition in the law
‘communication’ means 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
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