Groups Concerned With Plan Urging Increased Self-Regulation, Cite Need for ‘Meaningful Legal Framework’
International privacy and consumer organizations celebrating the success of Max Schrems' case before the European Court of Justice urged worldwide data protection officials to support a “meaningful legal framework that would protect the fundamental rights of both citizens and consumers…
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in the online era,” in a joint statement issued Wednesday during the International Data Protection and Privacy Conference in Amsterdam. Organizers of the conference focused on the “Bridges report,” which recommends “no substantive changes in law” and does “little to change the business or government behavior that threatens privacy and data protection,” the groups said. Failure to address issues ranging from “Big Data” to drone surveillance at the conference is a “lost opportunity,” they said. Focusing on failed policies like self-regulation makes the work or privacy experts more difficult, they said. The groups, which include Access Now, Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Cyber Privacy Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Patient Privacy Rights and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, want “Data Protection Commissioners to refocus their attention on the need to update and enforce privacy law,” saying they share a common goal to strengthen the fundamental rights and the protection of privacy and data protection.