Paris, 20 February 2013 — While the “Industry” (ITRE) committee is about to vote on its opinion regarding data protection regulation, it is now clear that the outcome will depend on the Members of the…
Le gouvernement veut profiter de l’affaire Twitter pour lancer une réforme législative sur le numérique. La sénatrice Esther Benbassa a été chargée de préparer un texte. Les pistes évoquées vont toutes dans le sens d’une…
Le nouvel accord commercial en préparation entre l’Union européenne et les États-Unis inquiète décidément les acteurs de tous les bords. Voilà quelques jours, la Quadrature du Net estimait que le document pourrait être le cheval…
L’Islande pourrait prochainement être le pays à faire le buzz sur la toile, et le malheur de l’industrie pornographique en ligne. Le pays envisage prochainement d’établir un filtrage interdisant l’accès aux contenus pornographiques à ses…
An open source tool has been launched to identify the influence US lobbyists have had on the EU Data Protection Regulation. […]
*** UPDATE — 18 February 2013: publication of the “compromise amendments” dated February 18th ***
Paris, 13 February 2013 — After the US corporations’ victory in the European Parliament’s “Consumer” committee (IMCO) in late January, more…
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) copied text suggested by major US-based business groups into draft provisions they would like to see incorporated into a reformed EU data protection framework, campaigners have claimed. […]
Embargoed until the delivery the State of the Union address, US President Obama signed the expected and highly anticipated cybersecurity executive order. With potentially serious implications for US and foreign citizens’ privacy, here’s what you…
A handful of MEPs have copy-pasted amendments made by giant US-based IT companies directly into the EU’s new data protection law. […]
A German Green MEP, Jan Albrecht, has also said that lobbying on EU data…
How do you highlight examples of big corporations’ lobbying proposals being copied, word-for-word, into proposed laws? For EU privacy activists, the answer lies in many eyes. […]