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EU: DATA PROTECTION: Data protection vote – one step forward, two big steps backwards

21 October 2013

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"The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee held a crucial vote this evening on the future of privacy and data protection in Europe.
We applaud Parliamentarians for supporting – and even improving - several important and valuable elements of the original Commission proposal. We are particularly happy that the Committee chose to overturn the Commission's proposal to allow Member States the scope to exempt themselves from the rules on profiling. Nonetheless, we are shocked and disappointed that Parliamentarians voted to introduce massive loopholes that undermine the whole proposal."

See the full text: Data protection vote – one step forward, two big steps backwards (EDRI, link).

And see: Major Loopholes in Privacy Regulation - EU Parliament Must Stand For Citizens (La Quadrature du Net, link).

Also see: European Parliament: Press Release: Civil Liberties MEPs pave the way for stronger data protection in the EU (pdf):

"Data transfers to non-EU countries: According to the adopted text, if a third country requests a company (eg. a search engine, social network or cloud provider) to disclose personal information processed in the EU, the firm would have to seek authorisation from the national data protection authority before transferring any data. The company would also have to inform the person of such a request, MEPs say. This proposal is a response to the mass surveillance activities unveiled by the media in June 2013." [emphasis in original].

And: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): An important and welcome step towards stronger and more effective data protection in Europe (pdf) also: Peter Schaar on the new proposals from the European Parliament: The European data protection reform must be completed rapidly (pdf)

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