[governance] EU Commissioner

[Adam Peake]

On Nov 15, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:

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> FYI
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> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-922_en.htm
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Thanks Wolfgang.

(Neelie Kroes talking about a cloud for europe -- cloud computing based on EU data protection law.)

I send a note about this topic a while back, some research for the European Parliament:




> On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:45 PM, Adam Peake wrote:
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>> strongly recommend people read Caspar Bowden's work for the European Parliament on PRISM and FISA.  Bowden's been writing about the threat of FISA, etc. for some years, Snowden has made clear just how important his work is.
>> 
>> Caspar Bowden speaking at the European Parliament Tuesday Sept 24, 
>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa83l2_ZzEo&feature=youtu.be>  Study referred to in the presentation "The US surveillance programmes and their impact on EU citizens' fundamental rights" <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/libe/dv/briefingnote_/briefingnote_en.pdf>  (need to remember it's all our rights, not just EU citizens).
>> 
>> This earlier document "fighting cyber crime and protecting privacy in the cloud" <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/studiesdownload.html?languageDocument=EN&file=790500,d.dGI> very good, BBC article <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21263321> shows Bowden's foresight.
>> 
>> The points he makes about an economic response (without some government regulated nationalist/regionalist policy) are sensible. 
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>> And these:
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>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Siv10PcNTw>
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XRFxevw1Y>
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cx_vumGbXM>
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>> Summary of Caspar, Jacob Applebaum, Bruce Schneier others speaking at an event <http://memento.epfl.ch/event/congress-on-privacy-and-surveillance/> in Lausanne on Monday <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/privacy-and-surveillance-jacob-applebaum-caspar-bowden-and-more-speak-in-switzerland> also worth reading.
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>> Would be wonderful of the recent EU Parliament document linked above could be used as a briefing document for the Emerging Issues session in Bali.  Unfortunately I don't think Caspar can attend the IGF.
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>> Best,
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
>> 




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