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The Conference on the Future of Europe, Democracy and Rule of Law panel has generated 39 recommendations to improve the EU’s Democracy and compliance with the Rule of Law. Three of these related to Privacy and one to Cybersecurity.
I have drafted a response for CTOE, which I hope will become part of their response but did not form part of their first response, which is fortunate since I changed my mind slightly.
My initial view of the recommendations was that they lacked a problem definition and that they were often unactionable. I feel they may have been ill-served by the experts who may not have presented the GDPR and the other privacy regulations in an accurate light. However, I have been told that the view in citizen’s panel 2, and others, is that privacy is not taken sufficiently seriously and that breaches by the member states, foreign governments and corporations still occur and are not sufficiently controlled or punished. An opinion based on the blasé view that it’s under control, which is where I started, is not good enough and fails to recognise what should be the power of a Citizen’s Assembly; it raises ideas, opinions and interests that politics as normal and experts ignore.
Regulation and sanctions
There are three recommendations and while two of them are very specific on details of the EU’s privacy laws, recommendation 7 deals with GDPR enforcement. For this to have become a recommendation, there must be a broadly held view that…
