A handful of euro-deputies in the industry committee (Itre) have introduced industry-backed amendments that weaken a draft EU regulation on protecting people’s private data on the Internet. […]
“The effect of the adopted text would be to effectively rip up decades of privacy legislation in Europe, undermining trust and confidence – to the detriment of both citizens and business,” said the Brussels-based NGO, European Digital Rights (EDRi), in a statement following the vote earlier this week. […]
Pro-privacy advocates argue that all the data, pseudonymous or not, should come under the data protection regulation. […]
http://euobserver.com/justice/119148