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EU Governments Agree To Tougher Stance On E-evidence (reuters.com)
EU governments agreed on Friday to toughen up draft rules allowing law enforcement authorities to get electronic evidence directly from tech companies such as Facebook and Google stored in the cloud in another European country.
From a report: The move underlines the growing trend in Europe to rein in tech giants whether on the regulatory front or the antitrust front. The e-evidence proposal also came in the wake of recent deadly terrorist attacks in Europe, pressure on tech companies to do more to cooperate with police investigations and people's growing tendency to store and share information on WhatsApp, Facebook, Viber, Skype, Instagram and Telegram.
The European Commission, the EU executive, came up with the draft legislation in April, which includes a 10-day deadline for companies to respond to police requests or 6 hours in emergency cases, and fines up to 2 percent of a company's global turnover for not complying with such orders. The proposal covers telecoms services providers, online marketplaces and internet infrastructure services providers and applies to subscriber data and other data on access, transactional and content.
The European Commission, the EU executive, came up with the draft legislation in April, which includes a 10-day deadline for companies to respond to police requests or 6 hours in emergency cases, and fines up to 2 percent of a company's global turnover for not complying with such orders. The proposal covers telecoms services providers, online marketplaces and internet infrastructure services providers and applies to subscriber data and other data on access, transactional and content.
well looks like it....
Since I reside in the Apple ecosystem, all of the evidence of my wrongdoings are actually iEvidence.
Schmuckerberg and Sandvag should be arrested the next time they set foot on EU-affiliated soil. Just like the Huawei fraudster.
and fines up to 2 percent of a company's global turnover
Assuming it is in their jurisdiction to get such information on a global scale, what exactly is "turnover"? Is this some newspeak term for income?
Now they have to seek out software that cannot fall under such jurisdiction. There are plenty of alternatives.
And really, if you don't want these laws on the books, you should be more careful who you vote for. All these problems are needlessly chronic and self inflicted.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Nothing new. The fascists just have now put into law what they already have been doing for a long time.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I'm sick of all the rights people are losing all over the world with the excuse of terrorism... is it really that bad? how many people die because the pharmaceuticals inflate the price of their product beyond any ethical limit? I'm sure much more than because of terrorism, but you know? that last one have much more media coverage and makes people be afraid and let governments cut any right...
I'm from Spain and we already had a surreally freedom cutting law some years back (search "ley mordaza"), and things are getting worse each year (sometimes because Europe, sometimes because Spain)
please governments, I don't want security, I want to be free, I don't want police being able to look into my private life "easily", I choose to be "vulnerable" to terrorism rather than give up freedom.