Today EDRi advocated in a hearing on ACTA in the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs that the Commission is demeaning the democratic process and demeaning itself by acting this way. The representative from the European Data Protection Supervisor seemed very dismayed that the Commission chose to disregard its opinions in the way described above, citing the ACTA agreement as being, from a data protection perspective, unacceptable.
The Commission responded that ACTA is not dead, and an intellectual property rights lawyer invited to give her opinion before the committee declared the critique against the agreement presented by the European Consumer's Organsation, EDRi and the European Data Protection Supervisor "irrational".
Today EDRi advocated in a hearing on ACTA in the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs that the Commission is demeaning the democratic process and demeaning itself by acting this way. The representative from the European Data Protection Supervisor seemed very dismayed that the Commission chose to disregard its opinions in the way described above, citing the ACTA agreement as being, from a data protection perspective, unacceptable.
The Commission responded that ACTA is not dead, and an intellectual property rights lawyer invited to give her opinion before the committee declared the critique against the agreement presented by the European Consumer's Organsation, EDRi and the European Data Protection Supervisor "irrational".