Last night’s
meeting of the Crouch End Chapter of the Institute for Data Protection focused
on the Regulation, and more specifically, on the rousing speech that our Minister
will make at the next meeting of the Justice & Home Affairs Council in early December. Those
present at that meeting will finally decide whether it’s likely that there will be time for a
new legal instrument on data protection to be agreed before the European
Parliament is dissolved and a new crop of parliamentarians are elected next year. Yes we plucky Brits may be outvoted at the December meeting, but that's a small price to pay for living in this topsy turvey Euro world.
After much
discussion, and just before “last orders” were called, a communiqué was agreed,
which will be sent to the Ministry of Justice in the usual manner. Hopefully, the Minister will find it helpful as a
speaking note.
For those
who are not suffering from too much data protection regulation fatigue, here is
the text:
We are making this declaration
On behalf of
the British nation
It should be
the intent
Of our
Parliament
To say: “no”
to this Regulation
To: the Euro Queen of data
We cannot
say we hate her
But at her
plans we’ve looked
And they’re
not fully cooked
So it’s:
“not just now, but later”
We’ve heard
from many a petitioner
The proposed
rules can’t be followed by a practitioner
We must end
this perversion
And agree a
new version
Under the
reign of a new Commissioner
Into a
surveillance society we may well have stepped
And, yes,
there are fundamental rights to protect
But it is
reprehensible
If we can’t
develop sensible
Laws we can
all respect
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