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EU: DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: The lobby-tomy 2: What was the lobbying about?

10 March 2016

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"What do companies really think about privacy protection? Publicly everybody thinks privacy is important, but do they think the same thing behind closed doors? What were the hot issues during the lobby and did everybody treat privacy protection well?

(...)

Of all the (over 150 ) lobbying documents, unfortunately only three are clearly in favour of more data protection. Two of those are ours. The other one was sent by the European consumers association. That is a very low number.

We have qualified one third of the documents as unmistakably bad for data protection. This means that organisations in those cases want fewer obligations, and want to make more data processing possible and/or easier.

Of course, judging almost two hundred lobby documents on their substance is no exact science. It doesn’t get any more precise than “more” or “less” data protection. Still, a troubling image appears."

See the full text: The lobby-tomy 2: What was the lobbying about? (EDRi, link)

See also: Lobby-tomie (link) - the blog series in Dutch (Bits of Freedom, link)

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