Defined in the law · ePrivacy Directive Art. 2(a)

User

In plain English

Under the ePrivacy Directive, any individual who uses a public electronic communications service, privately or for business, even without being a subscriber.

The definition in the law

‘user’ means any natural person using a publicly available electronic communications service, for private or business purposes, without necessarily having subscribed to this service

Directive 2002/58/EC (ePrivacy Directive), Article 2(a)EUR-Lex

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