...Access Now, [a nonprofit civil society organisation based in Brussels], testified in a hearing before [...] the European Parliament on the proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation... This e-Privacy proposal aims to set the rules for the respect for private life and the confidentiality of electronic communications in the EU. [The] testimony [...] clarifies that to protect Europeans’ fundamental rights, the rules should not only uphold the level of protection afforded by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but should exceed it. Further, there is a “playing field” that must be levelled in the e-Privacy context... Users do not have sufficient access to information and control of their personal information. There is very little transparency [...] and the field must be levelled to address this information asymmetry and put users back in control as promised...