30.10.2015 - 08:39 [ Techdirt ]

How The EU‘s Proposed New ‚Privacy‘ Rules Will Be A Tool For Massive Censorship

We recently wrote about some concerns about the new Data Protection Directive that is being set up in Europe. The law is driven by people with good intentions: looking to better protect the privacy of European citizens. Privacy protection is an important concept — but the current plans appear to be so focused on privacy protection that it gives very little regard for the unintended consequences of the way it‘s been set up. As we wrote in our last post, Daphne Keller at Stanford‘s Center for Internet and Society is writing a series of blog posts raising concerns about how the new rules clash with basic concepts of free speech. She‘s now written one about the immensely troubling setup of the „notice and takedown“ rules included in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).