<div dir="ltr"><div style><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Just found this on the Forum of La Quadrature</span></div>
<div style><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Geneva, Lucida, Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><a href="https://forum.laquadrature.net/index.php/t/856/">https://forum.laquadrature.net/index.php/t/856/</a></span></font><br>
</div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><div><br></div><div>* Revision of the "data protection" privacy EU legislation is currently <b>in its early stages</b> (beginning of the first reading in the Parliament). <b>Important votes could be very soon</b>, as early as late January. So far it smells *really bad*: <b>our fundamental right to privacy is heavily threatened</b>.<br>
</div></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* It is one of the </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">most impressive lobbying effort</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> to the EU institutions, especially the Parliament seen in ages, mostly led </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">by big US companies</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> ("Big Data" in person lobbies our representatives).</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* It is about current and future framing by the law of </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">the collection, the processing and the storage of our personal data</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">. It is about regulating the way Internet service providers, banks, administrations, etc. will know and have an </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">influence on all we do online and offline</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> through technology.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* All s</span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">afeguards currently existing in EU and national laws are threatened</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> by hundreds of amendements on the initial report and various opinions of parliamentary committees (consumers, industry, civil liberties, legal affairs, etc.). </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* There are </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">about 8-10 "hot" issues</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> currently being debated. Among which the most important appear to be:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> - massive loophole with </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">ultra-vague notion of a "legitimate interest"</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> as an exoneration to safeguards</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> - definition of "personal data"</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> - export of personal data to third countries</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> - red herring "right to be forgotten"</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> - portability of data</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* There is apparently </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">no clear defined position in the various political groups</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> in the European Parliament. Bad amendements are spread among all biggest political groups.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* Tentative timetable is: as soon as end of January 2013 for votes in IMCO, ITRE then JURI and LIBE committees. 1st reading plenary vote could be as early as a few months from now.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* Lobbyists use bullshit economic arguments like "innovation/growth/jobs need more collecting/processing/storing of personal data" to justify that safeguards should be nullified (in reality, informed consent of users through contracts would suffice!)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* Raw analysis is being made by EDRi on </span><a href="http://protectmydata.eu/" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window" style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(72,126,214);line-height:18px">http://protectmydata.eu/</a><div style="width:16px;height:16px;display:inline-block">
</div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> but we need MOAR political analysis, symbols, expressions, concrete examples, blogging and information.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">* </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><b>We must act quickly.</b></i><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Lucida,'Lucida Grande',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
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