Glancing at a recent news report, I see that,
coincidentally, some European Parliamentary Committees are voting on a wide
range of amendments to the proposed General Data Protection Regulation at almost
the same time that various European regulators are threatening (again) to take
action against Google for apparently behaving in an awful manner.
Presumably, these events are not linked.
Presumably, there is no attempt on the part of certain
regulators to keep stories about awful overseas-based data controllers in the minds
of the public (and their MEPs) at the very time that some MEPs are supposed to
be wading through documents stuffed with impenetrable data protection amendments.
If the rules were changed to allow European parliamentarians
only to take part in votes on amendments and issues that they understood, I
expect that the number of politicians eligible to take part in votes on the
Regulation would drop quite substantially.
As it is, I’m sure that lots of amendments will be waved
through by people who may not fully appreciate the financial implications of
what they are doing.
But never mind.
Perhaps when the Member States have had their say on what
the instrument should look like, the text will have radically changed again.
Source:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2013/0220/1224330264816.html
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