EU Governments Agree To Tougher Stance On E-evidence (reuters.com) 19
EU governments agreed on Friday to toughen up draft rules allowing law enforcement authorities to get electronic evidence directly from tech companies such as Facebook and Google stored in the cloud in another European country.
From a report: The move underlines the growing trend in Europe to rein in tech giants whether on the regulatory front or the antitrust front. The e-evidence proposal also came in the wake of recent deadly terrorist attacks in Europe, pressure on tech companies to do more to cooperate with police investigations and people's growing tendency to store and share information on WhatsApp, Facebook, Viber, Skype, Instagram and Telegram.
The European Commission, the EU executive, came up with the draft legislation in April, which includes a 10-day deadline for companies to respond to police requests or 6 hours in emergency cases, and fines up to 2 percent of a company's global turnover for not complying with such orders. The proposal covers telecoms services providers, online marketplaces and internet infrastructure services providers and applies to subscriber data and other data on access, transactional and content.
The European Commission, the EU executive, came up with the draft legislation in April, which includes a 10-day deadline for companies to respond to police requests or 6 hours in emergency cases, and fines up to 2 percent of a company's global turnover for not complying with such orders. The proposal covers telecoms services providers, online marketplaces and internet infrastructure services providers and applies to subscriber data and other data on access, transactional and content.
NAZIS won... (Score:3)
well looks like it....
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They did not win yet. The holy grail is forbidding any non-backdoored encryption.
doesn't matter to me (Score:2)
global what? (Score:2)
and fines up to 2 percent of a company's global turnover
Assuming it is in their jurisdiction to get such information on a global scale, what exactly is "turnover"? Is this some newspeak term for income?
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People need a stimulating challenge (Score:1)
Now they have to seek out software that cannot fall under such jurisdiction. There are plenty of alternatives.
And really, if you don't want these laws on the books, you should be more careful who you vote for. All these problems are needlessly chronic and self inflicted.
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I agree that people should think before they vote, but the European Commission is not an elected body
The voters are supposed to hold it accountable to the European Parliament, which is directly elected by EU citizens. And if that doesn't help, people can vote their country out of the EU. Everything boils down to the voters' actions.
Don't trust the cloud (Score:2)
Nothing new. The fascists just have now put into law what they already have been doing for a long time.
terrorism: the perfect excuse (Score:1)
I'm sick of all the rights people are losing all over the world with the excuse of terrorism... is it really that bad? how many people die because the pharmaceuticals inflate the price of their product beyond any ethical limit? I'm sure much more than because of terrorism, but you know? that last one have much more media coverage and makes people be afraid and let governments cut any right...
I'm from Spain and we already had a surreally freedom cutting law some years back (search "ley mordaza"), and things
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Any site and any person found to be supporting any type of Catalan independence.
Anyone making fun of a French politician.
A person questioning the wide open immigration to Germany.
Blasphemy laws so faiths that hide wanted criminals won't be talked about.
Laws to ensure an EU company can keep its reputation and make a profit by banning the use of internet links?
No talk of DRM. No attempts to import counterfeit parts for the r