EU Data Protection czar comes out against ACTA; EU analysis of leaked ACTA chapter

The European Digital Rights Initiative has put together an extensive FAQ on last night's leaked text from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA, the secret copyright treaty whose seventh round of negotiations just concluded in Mexico). It's an excellent analysis from the point of view of EU law and standards, and discusses the way that this draft shows that the European Parliament has been misled on the substance of the negotiations.

Additionally, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EU's highest authority on privacy) has declared against ACTA and has criticized the Commission for undertaking to negotiate it. Paoli Brini adds, "This is very important because tomorrow there will probably be a confrontation/hearing with a series of oral questions from the Parliament to the Commission, some of those questions should put the Commission in an awkward position (the Commission delegates of the DG Trade are the leader negotiators for ACTA in Europe)."

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Anonymous

Have I missed it or has NPR been utterly silent on ACTA ?

Rather than running shows on the same topic all day, every day, day after day, week after week, month after month to the exclusion of nearly everything else going on in the world, couldn’t they just once talk about something else important ?
peterbruells

Hah. This is good new insofar as the European parliament just recently showed some balls and torpedoed the mass transfer of bank transfer data to the United States. They might do so again, or so I hope.