Alert: Our Privacy About to be Destroyed in Brussels? | ¿Qué está pasando? | Scoop.it

 Submitted on 22 Jan 2013 - 14:35

[Tags: data protection, * privacy]

Paris, 22 January 2013 — The consideration of the "data protection" privacy regulation is in progress in the European Parliament, with a vote in the consumers committee (IMCO) on Wednesday. It is the object of an unprecedented lobbying campaign, mostly driven by US companies. If citizens don't act, banks, insurance companies and Internet service operators will have a free hand to collect, process, store and sell all of our personal data, which will enable them to know and direct all that we do online and offline.


Via Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.