A number of civil rights organisations have jointly published a Brussels Privacy Declaration in support of better protection for EU citizens’ privacy. The declaration, which interested users can sign, sets out demands for the EU’s planned data protection regulation. The organisations also express their outrage that the basic right of individuals to decide what happens to their information is “widely ignored”. […]
The declaration appeals to MEPs and governments to strengthen and better enforce data protection legislation. It calls for the new EU legislation to set out that personal data can only be processed with “explicit, strong and informed consent”. The signatories also call for a ban on the practice of coupling the use of a service to the granting of permission to use personal data. They also call for the use of and sharing of data to be made more transparent. […]
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