Hell yeah. Thats the EU for you. Aint no one infringing on the publics privacy. (Well, apart from the Governments themselves, but thats a different story.) | |
And so the great migration for Internet Business from the US to the EU Begins... | |
I think it has a lot to do with ACTA also extending to Medicine, when you start fighting against the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders... Seriously, you cannot expect to win in the Public-Relations department, nomatter how good your movies/music/games are. And you dont see European Goverments going against those guys either, the goverements doing that would be very short-lived. The people might not know the internet, but -everyone- knows Red Cross. And if there was ever a Black/White scenario, (Evil Monopolistic US-Phamaseuticals VS Doctors Without Borders and RedCross). Thats it. | |
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Throughout the ACTA/PIPA/SOPA debacle (and the recent proposal to require companies to record everyone's internet activities for 18 months in the name of combating child porn), I have been a part of a very small minority who's said, "The problem isn't ACTA/PIPA/SOPA/whatever, the problem is that we need to fundamentally change the way privacy and the internet is thought of. We need a "consumer's bill of rights" to uphold basic rights of individuals on the internet, BEFORE we give far reaching power to either corporations or the government."
I have also said that, "Unfortunately this will likely come after the fact, 5-10 years from now. Probably after aggressive legislation like ACTA is passed and in response to discontent from the masses."
Well, looks like the EU is leading the way to providing certain rights to individuals on the internet.
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202542035639&The_Global_Impact_of_the_EUs_New_Rules_on_Data_Privacy
This is HUGE. It gives me so much hope that the internet of tomorrow could be a much brighter place. In the turbulence of contemporary politics surrounding the internet and its usage, this is the greatest bright spot I've seen in years. I'm hoping that such a revolutionary step becomes a major political concern in the US and other major post-industrial nations as well. I've been extremely concerned - the way companies such as google and Facebook operate, the blooming industry of "personal information brokers" that are cropping up on the internet - we're getting to a point where I fear people can regularly, yet subtly discriminate against anyone because of personal choices such as being a gamer, going on porn, or a distant facebook post made in anger as a teenager. This could help protect against that. Here's to more legislation like that!