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Throw Us All The Scare Bombs You Can - we're Ready

October 24, 2013 posted by Steve Brownstein

by Steven Brownstein

'EU lawmakers to beef up data protection laws.'

That's garbbing the EU headlines.

European Union lawmakers were set to approve sweeping new data protection rules to strengthen online privacy, and sought to outlaw most data transfers to other countries' authorities to prevent spying.

The EU is attempting to stop all data transfers out of their countries with one exception:

And that exception exceeds all the controls that they can muster.

That is, consent.

Consent by the individual trumps all their initiatives.

it is even written into the new guidelines:

"The legislation, among other things, aims at enabling users to ask companies to fully erase their personal data, handing them a so-called right to be forgotten. It would also limit user profiling, require companies to explain their use of personal data in detail to customers, and mandate that companies seek prior consent. In addition, most businesses would have to designate or hire data protection officers to ensure the regulation is properly applied.

The use of the word, 'enable' means just that. A person has to consent to enable. All other information in this 'beefed up' law would be secretarial at best.

We do need to manage records.

We do need to designate a data protection officer or hire one to ensure the standards are met.

So what? We're already doing it.

It must be election time in Europe. Knock the Americans.