A team of German journalists and developers concerned about data protection legislation have launched an online platform to expose the copy-pasting of lobbyists’ position papers into EU legislation.
It’s called LobbyPlag and it aims to denounce deregulating influences (such as Ebay’s or the European Banking Federation’s) on EU Committee members’ amendments to the draft of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This law, planned to take effect in 2016, is intended to replace previous obsolete directives and unify data protection within the EU. […]
LobbyPlag wants to raise awareness of this issue before the vote, negotiations and implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation. The next important date for the team, and other digital rights activists and partners such as La Quadrature du Net, is February 27, the deadline for tabling amendments. At the end of April lies the orientation vote in LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs , an other crucial deadline. […]
http://www.euronews.com/2013/02/14/xyz-new-platform-tracks-lobbyists-copy-pasting-their-way-into-eu-legislation/