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EU's chief justice Koen Lenaerts warns of attacks on 'normal pluralistic democratic game' by data retention. He cites exmpl of protest in EU capital, in 'unfortunately EU member states', where government target texts to those identified by metadata as opponents. #ICDPPC2018 Image
Lenaerts notes that in the fight against terrorism, states tend to cast the net of surveillance as widely as possible. 'Those measures are absolutely liable to conflict' with the rights of citizens. Perhaps an obvious legal point, but important point by Europe's most senior judge
Interesting aside also on @maxschrems'es case against Facebook and resulting 2015 ECJ decision. Lenaerts notes that, not only had EU primary law changed with Lisbon Treaty (adopted 2009) after Safe Harbour (adopted 2000).
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Wonderful to hear the King of Spain talking about privacy. He must know, after all he once sued satire magazine El Jueves into destroying an entire issue over a cover he didn't like. Well, if you haven't seen it, dig in:
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Two cartoonists were fined 3,000 euro over depicting His Royal Heini news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/70…
"Do you realise," says the crown prince in the cartoon, "if you get pregnant this will be the closest thing I've done to work in my whole life."
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It was an honor to be invited to #ICDPPC2018 in Brussels this morning. I’d like to share a bit of what I said to this gathering of privacy regulators from around the world. It all boils down to a fundamental question: What kind of world do we want to live in?
GDPR has shown us all that good policy and political will can come together to protect the rights of everyone.
We believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. No matter what country you live in, that right should be protected in keeping with four essential principles:
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