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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 <https://storify.com/CasparBowden/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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