All member states to harmonize laws related to data protection.
The European Commission (EC) is seeking bloc-wide reform of data protection to update laws that were put in place by governments long before services like Facebook or Twitter were around.
European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding, said that services such as social networks need ... [ read the full article ]
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There they go using words indiscriminately again, in some kind of attempt to place them on an even higher elitist plateau than they already seem to think they exist... Harmonize!?! Harmonize my scaly old ass, "update" to the 21st century. Sure it has one less syllable & doesn't seem to have quite the inclusive, warm fuzzy that a lacking, cold, teetless, low in the poles, who is probably going to 'step in it' organization should have done some 20 years ago. Way to step up to the plate guys. Glad to see you're earning that well UN-deserved paycheck.
Meanwhile corporations have been selling & buying our personal information like 8 year olds years trading Pokemon cards, 20 years before the internet was the staple diet... LONG before this profound statement decided to make a holiday appearance. Do we get a pink slip in our stocking too?
If you happen to see an envelope float from behind you, between your legs onto the floor...? I wouldn't bend over to pick it up & to read what's inside.
Originally posted by LordRuss: There they go using words indiscriminately again, in some kind of attempt to place them on an even higher elitist plateau than they already seem to think they exist... Harmonize!?! Harmonize my scaly old ass, "update" to the 21st century. Sure it has one less syllable & doesn't seem to have quite the inclusive, warm fuzzy that a lacking, cold, teetless, low in the poles, who is probably going to 'step in it' organization should have done some 20 years ago. Way to step up to the plate guys. Glad to see you're earning that well UN-deserved paycheck.
Meanwhile corporations have been selling & buying our personal information like 8 year olds years trading Pokemon cards, 20 years before the internet was the staple diet... LONG before this profound statement decided to make a holiday appearance. Do we get a pink slip in our stocking too?
If you happen to see an envelope float from behind you, between your legs onto the floor...? I wouldn't bend over to pick it up & to read what's inside.
Huh? So you wanted them to have data protection laws concerning how international digital services such as Facebook collect and use user information... 20 years ago?
Europe is not the only place behind on this issue, the U.S. has been debating these practices for years too. The European Union combined market consists of 27 member states... that's 27 national governments of varying political agendas. Even though all member states have a commissioner, and all have their Members of the European Parliant (MEP) elected by the people, that doesn't mean it makes it any easier at the European level to adopt bloc-wide initiatives. The reason they do so in the first place is because the European Union is a single market and therefore, all member states (through the framework of the EU) harmonize as much as they can on anything to do with trade, markets etc. In the U.S. its easier because there's a federal government to call the shots but the EU is not a federal government and not even close. Understanding how the EU institutions operate, how they are "staffed" so to speak, shows just how silly words such as "elites" or "eurocrats" actually are. They are simply easy targets for politicians in member states to blame for everything that goes wrong within their own borders.
Originally posted by Dela: Huh? So you wanted them to have data protection laws concerning how international digital services such as Facebook collect and use user information... 20 years ago?
Either something is getting lost in translation or your misquoting me in lieu of getting topical...
I'm saying that personal data was being bought & sold without the public's knowledge decades before the grand masses even knew what it was all about. Once mass advertising became the staple diet of the corporate machine this form of buying & selling of personal information started taking place. It got to its fullest head of steam in the late 40s after WW2, once radio & magazines/comic books had deeply rooted their ways into family households.
So for your information, it got its START in the US! Yes, the Wankin Yanks, once again started the mess & passed on the screwing that keeps on giving. However, I'm not part of the problem, nor am I going to suffer any of the Caucasian guilt associated with it, but I would certainly like to be a part of the solution. Problem is, most don't like my solutions & out of those that don't, they're are too wussified to offer their own... I.e., not part of the solution to begin with anyway.
