Everything you need to know about the Digital Product Passport
There is a lot of anticipation about what the EU’s Digital Product Passport can do – but what do the laws currently say? And what remains uncertain?
The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) is still taking shape with much still unknown. While we do know some things, such as the DPP providing an online record of information using data carriers, like QR codes, there are more questions than answers. That is why, together with 10 civil society organisations, we looked into what the laws actually say.
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The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.