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EU: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) press release - EDPS sees adoption of Data Protection Framework for police and judicial cooperation only as a first step

01 December 2008

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European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Press release: EDPS sees adoption of Data Protection Framework for police and judicial cooperation only as a first step (pdf): "the EDPS repeatedly called for significant improvements of the proposal to ensure high standards in the level of protection offered and warned against a dilution of data protection standards."

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

"The process of adopting this Framework Decision was a democratic fiasco with law enforcement officials deciding on issues of privacy and peoples' rights and coming down on the side of the state every time..

While the views of the European Parliament, the EDPS, national Data Protection Commissioners and civil society were virtually ignored the demands of the USA to retain unregulated bilateral access to personal data exchanges was endorsed."

See Statewatch Observatory on: Data protection in the EU

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