Caspar
On 05/18/13 09:56, Caspar Bowden wrote:
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/17/european_legislators_want_to_protect_their_citizens_from_u_s_spying.html
...Since Bowden’s report, several amendments to the data
protection reform bill have been put forward, and they appear
to be directly aimed at addressing potential U.S. snooping.
One, proposed by Dutch member of European Parliament Sophia in
't Veld, would prohibit the transfer of personal data to cloud
services under the jurisdiction of a “third country” (such as
the United States) unless various criteria are met. These
include obtaining the consent of the citizen and ensuring that
he or she is notified of the “possibility of the personal data
being subject to intelligence gathering or surveillance by
third-country authorities.” A similar amendment put forward by
Greek MEP Dimitrios Droutsa would also require that citizens
are notified if their data are to be transferred to a third
country’s jurisdiction. And another, proposed by Spanish MEP
Carmen Romero López, would encourage whistleblowers to expose
“unlawful processing of personal data” in cases involving
third countries, offering safeguards against “laws prohibiting
the uncovering of such unlawful processing”—which could
include state secrecy laws designed to prevent disclosure of
surveillance tactics.
(for those who haven't seen the report to EP, the gist is well
covered here
- European civil society has been rather strangely inactive on
these issues to date, so glad of propagation...)