EU – Brazil: working together towards a gold standard in privacy protection

Re:EU – Brazil: working together towards a gold standard in ... by throwaway6637 on Thursday June 12, 2014 @11:07AM (#7883781)

So... aside from the hot air, the only concrete thing I got from that press release was that the EU politicians are so pissed that the EU court struck down their draconian data retention laws that they're going to pass a new one that resolves the technicalities on which the old one was struck down.

And apparently, this is somehow going to bring the EU to "a gold standard in privacy protection". What?

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Re:EU – Brazil: working together towards a gold standard in ... by higherpurpose on Thursday June 12, 2014 @11:32AM (#7883976)

> the only concrete thing I got from that press release was that the EU politicians are so pissed that the EU court struck down their draconian data retention laws that they're going to pass a new one that resolves the technicalities on which the old one was struck down.

Where did you read that? Are you confusing the "data protection" with "data retention" terms? They sound similar but are opposite laws/movements.

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Re:EU – Brazil: working together towards a gold standard in ... by throwaway6637 on Friday June 13, 2014 @05:51AM (#7888009)

In the article.

"These are safeguards that were missing in the EU's Data Retention Directive. As a result, the Directive has been invalidated by the Court of Justice of the EU, Europe's highest court. The court said: the violation of individuals' rights was of "vast scope and particular gravity". One thing is certain: it will be have to be revised, with greater protection included for individuals."

So, we really need to protect privacy better, but we're still going to preemptively wiretap everyone in case some of them turn out to be criminals.

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