Friday, June 13, 2014

Data protection world cup... "EU - Brazil: working together towards a gold standard in privacy protection"

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5/ Concluding remarks

The EU and Brazil are strategic partners. We are fighting for the same principles, for the same values. For the Internet to remain free and open, with the individual at its heart.

Other parts of the world are currently going in the opposite direction. In the US, differentiated treatment is being negotiated by telecoms companies, without any safety net for individuals in US law. President Obama has announced that metadata collected under Section 215 (of the Patriot Act) will be stored by telecom companies, at the same moment as the Court of Justice invalidated Europe's scheme.

The 2014 World Cup starts tomorrow in Brazil. May the best team win! At any rate I believe that in data protection the EU-Brazil team can be the winner.

There is a community of values between the EU and Brazil. The EU and Brazil should work together to ensure that data should not be processed simply because algorithms are refined. Safeguards should apply and citizens should have rights. To ensure that the rights we have created off-line also apply online. To help build an Internet that is open and innovative.

read full press release at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-454_en.htm 


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