EU parliamentarian @SophieintVeld is rightly exasperated about the Commission refusing to properly answer questions on use of facial recognition by police forces. "The Commission is doing bugger-all about it. (...) This is not a democratic procedure!" #LIBE
LIBE chair @JFLopezAguilar agrees that the quality of replies by the Commission to written inquiries by parliament is very poor, "absolutely unacceptable". The Commission can not just copy-paste legal situation, but must address the political nature of the questions.
The complaint is seconded by @BirgitSippelMEP and @echo_pbreyer. LIBE chair indicates it is open to writing formal letter to Commission demanding proper answers to questions. I guess this will find deep echo in large parts of the EP.
To illustrate the nature of the complaint, these are very specific question by in 't Veld, @moritzkoerner and others on Clearview: europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
This is the absolute non-answer by the Commission, which basically just summarizes the law: europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
To add injury to insult, only minutes later the Commission delivers another non-answer on pertinent questions by @SophieintVeld on the Google-Fitbit merger: europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
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