EDRi reports on the EU data protection reform…
Leaked documents from the Council
According to the leaked proposals, crucial privacy protections have been drastically undermined, including the right to be asked for consent, the right to know how your data are used and the right to object to your data being used, minimum standards of behaviour for companies exploiting individuals’ data. In several places, the text would not likely pass judicial scrutiny under Europe’s human rights framework.
It has been expected that the Council (EU member states) would be trying to undermine the EU data protection package. And now we have it in writing.
As usual when the Council is trying to bully other EU institutions, it probably will try to short-circuit a thorough and reflective democratic process — by rushing it through a trialouge, leading to a compromise in a “first reading agreement”.
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