Brussels, 15 May 2013 – The European Commission has proposed new regulation on data protection, which is currently being debated in the European Parliament. However, it threatens the commercial interests of big corporations who are currently making millions from collecting and selling our private data. Big corporation are trying to do everything in their power to water down the new regulation and protect their profits at the expense of our privacy. According to Commission Vice-President Reding, who is responsible for the proposal, it is some of the most aggressive industry lobbying she has ever witnessed.
The video and the ongoing lobby battle highlight the importance of ALTER-EUs fight for more lobby transparency and stronger ethics regulation in the EU. This includes a mandatory lobby register, balanced expert groups, a block of the revolving door and code of conducts for the Commission the Parliament and for Lobbyists.
You can watch the video here http://www.alter-eu.org/videos/2013/05/15/data-privacy-video
For more information go to:
http://www.alter-eu.org/documents/2013/05/the-data-privacy-fight