Posts by Brusselsgeek

Privacy? What privacy? EU's draft law on your data is useless, say digital rights orgs

Re: good for goose

Clarification: MEPs have agreed that there should, in principle, be rules. They approved the creation of a law. They have not approved the council-mangled text and will in all likelihood fight it.

Zippy one-liners, broken promises: Doctor Who on the Orient Express

Re: Proof reading?

There were three different reviewers, who clearly very much disagree.

Euro probe headed for Amazon's tax back door

While of course the EU institutions have a lot of problems, one of the reasons the accounts aren't signed off is because member states keep trying to slash the pittance they contribute. The Commission and the Parliament wanted to raise their own funds with the Financial Transaction Tax, but national governments, in particular the UK, vetoed that. And almost all of the Parliament would agree that they want to get rid of the three-ring circus to Strasbourg every month. So who's blocking that? France.

Realistically the EU is only as good as the member states allow it to be.

*usual caveat about there being plenty wrong with the EU, playing devil's advocate etc.

Want the EU to work on making cloud snoop-proof? Speak up, my good 'stakeholder'

Apologies: Links here: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/public-consultation-cloud-computing-and-software

Our Vultures peck at new Doctor Who: Exterminate or, er ... carrion?

Re: It's not PC's fault

"samey wamey"?

But yeah, I agree.

EU justice chief blasts Google on 'right to be forgotten'

Small clarification: Public figures are not explicitly excluded in the ECJ Ruling. It's Google itself that has decided to exclude them. Google is also complying with requests to take down links related to any under-18 behaviour without querying them.