As the Telecoms Package is being prepared for its second reading at the EU Parliament, the Quadrature du Net reports that the now famous Amendment 138 – believed to be a privacy safeguard – is back… although it’s now referred to as Amendment 46.
In recent months, this amendment has been attacked by a number of member states, most notably France, for standing in the way of the so-called « graduated response » aka the « three strikes policy ».
It’s definitely good news, although some other parts of the Telecoms Package are still problematic. Read the full analysis here.
http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/03/amendment-138-dies-hard.html