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EU Data Protection Proposal Taken Word For Word From US Lobbyists

Posted by Unknown on from the better-than-real-people dept.

Qedward writes "Glyn Moody looks at the proposed EU directive on Data Protection — and how some of the proposed amendments seem to be cut and pasted directly from the American Chamber of Commerce — that well-known European organisation... You might ask, Glyn writes, who are these MEPs representing — some 500 million EU citizens that pay their salary or a bunch of extremely rich U.S. companies intent on taking away our privacy?" Lobbyplag lets you look at which lobbyist wrote each part of the bill. Fears of the U.S. exerting undue influence seem to be justified.

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  1. The EU citizens don't "pay the MEPs' salaries". by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 0, Troll

    (and I'm SO sick of that bogus meme.)

    The MEPs send armed thugs to STEAL their salaries from the citizens, when they aren't manipulating their banking system to con or cheat them out of the money.

    Saying "I pay your salary!" just encourages them to laugh behind closed doors, like any other successful thug having a guffaw over the antics of his victims. You don't "pay their salaries" unless you're in a position to FIRE them and keep the money, at your own, individual, discretion.

    (Over here our ancestors had to fire AT them to get these parasites off their backs. But in the couple of centuries since that time a home-grown population has arisen.)

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    Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
  2. SO WHO SAVED YOUR ASSES IN THE WARS ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Us, that's who !!

    You owe them !!

    So they own you !!

    Move along !! Move along !!