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US To Get EU Private Citizen Data
An anonymous reader writes "In a case of 'all your data are belong to us,' the US government is close to coming to an agreement with the EU that allows it to get private citizen data on EU citizens to 'look for suspicious activity.' So, now we know what step three is: set up a security agency in the US to resell otherwise unavailable data."
Forgot to post a link to the proposed law, so here it is. And yes, it's for real.
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I RTFA.
I did.
The Times does not say that the EU is going to hand over private information to US authorities.
Actually,
"The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information â" like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits â" about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean."
to me, means exactly that.
I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
Just what I would have wanted my unelected EMPs to do on my behalf.
The EMP's, who are actually directly elected, have nothing to do with this agreement (and if you'd read the article, you'd see they are more critical of it than anyone else).
It's being negotiated by the Commission with a mandate of the EU Council of Ministers (who will later still have to, and probably will, approve it). The EU Council of Ministers consists of the ministers from all national governments (different ministers depending on the subject being discussed). You know, those ministers who always approve unpopular measures when they're in the Council and then later at home blame the EU for having to implement those same measures in national law.
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Did you miss this bit of that page?
"Own initiative reports are drafted by individual MEPs and are not proposals for EU laws."