Recital 44b

With a view to reducing the compliance burden and providing legal clarity, and given that certain purposes of processing pose a low risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects or that such processing may be necessary to provide a service requested by a subscriber or user, it is necessary to define a limitative list of purposes for which the processing should be permitted without consent. As regards storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in a terminal equipment, and subsequent processing that is necessary for those purposes, the Directive should therefore provide that such processing is lawful, including when being carried out jointly with or on the behalf of a controller. For example a media service provider, may mandate a third party, such as a market research company, to carry out such processing.