EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
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EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
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Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#2The audaciousness of taking those lobbyists' demands word-for-word and expecting nobody to find out in this day and age is pretty shocking.
Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#3The audaciousness of taking those lobbyists' demands word-for-word and expecting nobody to find out in this day and age is pretty shocking.
It's not audaciousness, it's ignorance.
Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#4The audaciousness of taking those lobbyists' demands word-for-word and expecting nobody to find out in this day and age is pretty shocking.
Will the lobbyists now sue the EU for copyright infringement?
Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#5The wording in any data protection act within the EU should be strongly anti-US. It's been shown many times that the US government does not consider data held in the US or by US corps on non-US citizens to be protected at all.
Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#6There are layers upon layers of problems here.
1. EU democracy and governance is not great. Very few europeans have any understanding of how the EU legislative process works or feel like they have anything to do with it.
2. Lobbying is increasingly making a mockery of consultation as an idea.
3. These laws are pretty technical and the people making them have no understanding of the issues. They don't need lobbyists to make stupid laws. See the UK/EU cookie laws for an example. They mandated that all sites must have nag screens. They cost the economy money. Annoy all european website users and achieved absolutely nothing useful. Malice may have had some role, but incompetence had a bigger one in that case.
I wish the EU would think creatively about its whole legislative process.
Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#7The audaciousness of taking those lobbyists' demands word-for-word and expecting nobody to find out in this day and age is pretty shocking.
this same thing has happened before, ie. when they tried to legalize USPTO software patents in the EU reissued by the EPO.
Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#8There are layers upon layers of problems here. 1. EU democracy and governance is not great. Very few europeans have any understanding of how the EU legislative process works or feel like they have anything to do with it. 2. Lobbying is increasingly making a mockery of consultation as an idea. 3. These laws are pretty technical and the people making them have no understanding of the issues. They don't need lobbyists t…
Actually a lot of EU directives are relatively easy to read. It only gets complex and legalese when national governments transpose them into national law.
Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#9The audaciousness of taking those lobbyists' demands word-for-word and expecting nobody to find out in this day and age is pretty shocking.
It's not audaciousness, it's ignorance.
Politician in "doesn't understand the internet" shock. It's an old story, I agree. Like when they wanted to "turn off Twitter" during the riots...
Re: EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
#10The title of this has been changed and is wildly misleading.
New AMENDMENTS being proposed by some MEPs are taken from lobbyists. These are amendments to the presently extremely pro-consumer proposal that are trying to water it down.