[governance] FW: What PRISM means for Europe / Brussels

[michael gurstein]

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Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 6:46 AM
Subject: What PRISM means for Europe / Brussels

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,


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