Defined in the law · ePrivacy Directive Art. 2(c)
Location data
In plain English
Data processed in a communications network or service that show where a user's device, such as a phone, is located.
The definition in the law
‘location data’ means any data processed in an electronic communications network or by an electronic communications service, indicating the geographic position of the terminal equipment of a user of a publicly available electronic communications service
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