EU Data Protection Body Points Out That ACTA Violates EU Data Protection Rules

from the no-legal-changes? dept

Tue, Jul 27th 2010 2:27am — Mike Masnick

Hephaestus was the first of a few of you to point out that the EU advisory body in charge of making sure various European laws comply with EU data protection and privacy regulations has slammed ACTA for violating those rules and violating "fundamental" privacy rights. So much for the claims that ACTA won't go against EU law, huh? The report is pretty damning, and shows growing opposition across a wide spectrum of groups in the EU. And we're hearing growing protests in the US as well, even from groups that support stronger intellectual property. There are more and more indications that the farce that is ACTA may finally be starting to crumble.

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Diarmuid Bourke, 27 Jul 2010 @ 4:14am

Who is paying for all of this?
I can't imagine that it's the invested parties that are actually paying for this legislation to be drafted...
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DBR, 27 Jul 2010 @ 4:49am

Hidden links...
If you visit that page using Firefox with Noscript you can see hundreds of hidden links on the page.

E.g. "can i buy microsoft word only purchase microsoft excel 2003 buy microsoft office 2007 basic cheap maya 2009 purchase office 2007 enterprise microsoft office 2003 buy online buy lightroom 2.6 nero discounts price of matlab cheap microsoft office 2007 download where can i buy powerpoint 2007 purchase roxio creator 2010 buy microsoft office publisher 2003 cyberlink powerproducer 5 ultra download buy acronis true image 11 microsoft mappoint 2009 cost buy microsoft office"

It's nothing more than a link farm.
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- Anonymous Coward, 27 Jul 2010 @ 5:25am
  
  Re: Hidden links...
  @DBR -- Actually, when you look at the page source, the link blob looks like a Javascript injection from the blog service provider. The site Mike cited is a blog. The entry cited quotes a letter published on 15 July 2010 found at:
  
  http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/workinggroup/wpdocs/2010-others_en.htm
  
  Found by taking 2 minutes to follow the link the blogger posted near the head of his article and look around.
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Anonymous Coward, 27 Jul 2010 @ 5:48am

if your ACTA and you know it
clap your hands
if your acta and ya know it and ya really want to show it
then you really ought to know it VIOLATE YOUR LAWzzzzz
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- Anonymous Coward, 27 Jul 2010 @ 7:02am
  
  Re: if your ACTA and you know it
  my ACTA? I didn't know I had an ACTA. Maybe you meant "you're"? I know, it's an easy mistake to make since you haven't passed 3rd grade.
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  - Anonymous Coward, 27 Jul 2010 @ 7:27am
    
    Re: Re: if your ACTA and you know it
    OMG! Watch out for the Grammar Blitzkrieg!
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Anonymous Coward, 27 Jul 2010 @ 5:52am

ACTA seems to violate all of the current rules in place.
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- Hephaestus (profile), 27 Jul 2010 @ 7:44am
  
  Death of a 1,000 paper cuts ...
  "ACTA seems to violate all of the current rules in place."
  
  If you want to help trash ACTA choose a section then go through EU law, privacy, data protection, human rights, etc.
  
  Here is the fun part. Since the EU is relatively new, not as corrupt as the US, and the citizens there actually take an interest in government. Write an e-mail to the relevent commisioner, governing body, etc stating this section of ACTA seems to violate this EU law, standard, rule, right, etc and give an explaination as to why you think it does. Express your concern and worry, state you do not want Europe to go the way of the US with a slow errosion of rights, and a corruption of the law. Then ask "Is my interpretaion of this law, standard, rule, etc, correct?" Make sure you CC EU reporters, bloggers, and several members of the EP (European Parliament).
  
  If they didnt respond to all when they get back to you, forward it to everyone on the CC list, make sure you include the person who answered your question(s) so they know who the response was forwarded to.
  
  You would be surprised at how much trouble your can cause with this simple technique.
  
  Here is starting point for EU resources
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  - Idobek (profile), 28 Jul 2010 @ 6:57am
    
    Re: Death of a 1,000 paper cuts ...
    Since the EU is relatively new, not as corrupt as the US
    
    Ha ha, ha ha ha, hahahahahahaha. Ha, ha ha, huh. *cough* Heh. Um...
    
    and the citizens there actually take an interest in government
    
    But are consistently ignored or told to think again whenever they vote the "wrong" way.
    
    However, the rest of what you say does stand up. Especially if you ensure to highlight that ACTA is being pushed by US owned vested interests. Keep banging on about it being written for and by US companies and you're bound to attract their attention.
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Pixelation, 27 Jul 2010 @ 8:07am

DUH!
I don't see the problem. The EU simply needs to change its data protection rules to conform to ACTA. DUH!
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NAMELESS.ONE, 27 Jul 2010 @ 8:40am

or not do acta
ya just say no
its worse then drugs
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sprearson81 (profile), 9 Jun 2012 @ 6:53am

The EU is as corrupt as it gets.
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fodder99 (profile), 30 Jun 2012 @ 10:19am

Too true.
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