It's been a remarkable few days for the Committee of European privacy
regulators (the "Art.29 Working Party")
In their first opinion on Data Protection law and national security
<http://t.co/itKVGpDI1L>, they grudgingly sort of admit it is their job
to stop NSA spying, but then the next day they approve contracts for
PRISM's first "corporate partner"
<https://twitter.com/CasparBowden/status/456366945512599552> for Cloud
"processing" (although they aren't really a "mere" processor at all
<https://twitter.com/CasparBowden/status/456413628392939520>)
..and today they issued the highest quality paper I have ever read from
them - No.216, on Anonymisation Techniques
Storified version *here
<wden/art-29-wp-opinion-216-on-anonymisation-techniques>* for gist, full
text (37 pages) in first tweet
If anyone knows of a regulatory text that comes close on this topic,
would like to know...
The relevance to LiberationTech is that if they enforce this, then a
whole bunch of worries about commercial and state spying through BigData
will go away, in Europe at least
Caspar
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