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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 <http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/january/eu-urged-to-scrap-use-of-personal-data-measures-for-cloud-computing-amid-us-surveillance-concerns/>) **************************************************** This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv for research and teaching in surveillance studies. To unsubscribe, please send the following message to <[log in to unmask]>: UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE For further help, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help ****************************************************