Should the European Data Protection Supervisor resign?
14 April 2010
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Can you remember those intelligence test questions of the form: “X is to Y” as “C is to D?”. Well here’s a new one: “Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety is to democracy” as the “European Union’s Freedom, Security and Justice Directorate is to privacy”. Whereas the former willingly silenced dissenting voices by removing heads at Madame Guillotine, the latter is wilfully cutting out any basic data protection requirements when making binding international agreements. Given the considerable democratic deficit in the
