Privacy campaigners are up in arms about a European Parliament committee’s decision to adopt a drafted opinion on data protection that some have argued further waters down Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding’s proposed rewrite of DP law. […]
Digital activists at La Quadrature Du Net agreed that the decision was a disaster for privacy law in Europe and urged EU citizens to lobby their MEPs hard and to complain about big corporations influencing the rewrite of data protection law. […]
Among proposals understood to have been adopted, personal data would be processed by third parties without a legal requirement to inform consumers if they can prove “legitimate interest” about such action. The EDRi argued that such a “bizarre” move would completely freeze out a citizen’s control of their own data, thereby rendering the “entire legislative measure close to meaningless“. […]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/22/european_parliament_industry_committee_data_protection_amendements/