Hi, Just a short note from Brussels where we're now seeing (and starting to explain) the massive US lobbying under a different light... Last year, the Commission presented a legislative proposal to update privacy laws in Europe. EDRi has been reporting on this for a while now and since then, lobbying efforts have only intensified: http://www.edri.org/US-DPR and http://www.edri.org/us-eudatap. A year ago, we were particularly worried about the fact that Article 42 on access to European data in the absence of an EU legal framework disappeared from in the first draft of the proposal. Even though this article has been re-introduced by the European Parliament, pressure is high to kick it out again.
It would now be interesting to see what amendments to the data protection reform have actually been written by the companies that are cooperating with the NSA - to weaken Europe's standards: see http://lobbyplag.eu/docs and http://lobbyplag.eu/map. Best, Kirsten -- | @kirst3nf | edri.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
