Three cheers
for European Digital Rights, the international advocacy group based in
Brussels.
Thank you for posting on your website details of the amendments to
the Data Protection Regulation that the LIBE Committee members will be voting
on tomorrow.
Better late
than never, but it does confirm the general direction of travel.
I have no
idea how Member States, in their own capacity as data controllers, will be able
to afford to implement all the protective measures that are being proposed.
Evidently,
Europe is out of the economic doldrums, and all Member States can all afford
the very significant compliance costs that this Regulation mandates.
If Europe’s economy
is actually in great shape then wonderful: no-one will have any problems paying
for this stuff.
But, if
national economies are still in a bit of a mess, then I really do wonder how
seriously we should take tomorrow’s vote. Then again, if some of the LIBE
committee members will be leaving the European Parliament after the elections next year, perhaps
they don’t care about the implications, either.
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