It's not entirely true that the EU never does anything to protect citizens' rights. The data protection regulation is a clear example of the EU doing good things. It is the member states (like Sweden and the UK) block the EU from progressing further with the good deed.
Also, there are a few member states that already have trade secret laws and upon which the Commission proposal is modelled: Sweden and France.
In the United Kingdom, trade secrets and confidential business information should be part of the current cyber defence strategy, namely, a reason for the military and the intelligence agency to hack, slash and spread misery.
In Sweden there have been attempts at getting to such a development since 2008, but we have the labour unions making resistance because trade secret laws and strict enforcement creates bad employee situations (what are you allowed to learn at work, what are you allowed to bring with you as experiences - how do you know when you're suddenly criminally liable for being an attentive employee? et c).
I think this is connected to the #TTIP negotiations with the US. The problem is that we have promised the US to negotiate on all intellectual property rights, only they consider trade secrets IPR and European countries normally don't (with the exception of France, where in specific instances they can fall under "industrial property rights").
But the Commission has been studying this for well over 2 years already. We have needless to say made resistance every part of the way.
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It's not entirely true that the EU never does anything to protect citizens' rights. The data protection regulation is a clear example of the EU doing good things. It is the member states (like Sweden and the UK) block the EU from progressing further with the good deed.
Also, there are a few member states that already have trade secret laws and upon which the Commission proposal is modelled: Sweden and France.
In the United Kingdom, trade secrets and confidential business information should be part of the current cyber defence strategy, namely, a reason for the military and the intelligence agency to hack, slash and spread misery.
In Sweden there have been attempts at getting to such a development since 2008, but we have the labour unions making resistance because trade secret laws and strict enforcement creates bad employee situations (what are you allowed to learn at work, what are you allowed to bring with you as experiences - how do you know when you're suddenly criminally liable for being an attentive employee? et c).
I think this is connected to the #TTIP negotiations with the US. The problem is that we have promised the US to negotiate on all intellectual property rights, only they consider trade secrets IPR and European countries normally don't (with the exception of France, where in specific instances they can fall under "industrial property rights").
But the Commission has been studying this for well over 2 years already. We have needless to say made resistance every part of the way.