On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 12:56:30PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 06:20:21PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> AFAIK, in Germany, it's the laws that any such "passing on personal
> information" needs to be opt-in - "Opt-out" and "always-on"
would be
> unlawful.
> I'd seriously recommend to pass this proposal on to a EU
> data-privacy law expert.
I'll pass on this concern, but generally I trust Fedora Legal to take
these things into account.
Echoing the concerns of Ralf, I would also be more confortable if it was
reviewed by more people. While I trust Fedora Legal to do their best, I
think there is also cultural differences that would bias everything.
There is a lot of cultural, linguistic and political differences across
the 12^W 15^W 28 countries of EU.
And since laws discussed at the EU level need then to be customised for local
application (ie, at the nation level), this may result in slightly or less
slightly different laws each time in each country.
Of course, for more fun, laws are redacted in the local language, which
is not english for a vast majority of nations.
And we are only for now just speaking of EU, not even touching Latin America
(as it seems that Argentina or Mexico among others did adopt the same legal
framework than the EU, with likely adaptation), Africa, or Asia Pacific.
So I would propose to complement the review of Fedora Legal, who would
likely did a perfect job for US laws, with people who would be a bit
more specialist on the topic outside of the US. I do not have any idea,
except maybe people for the EFF, even if that's mostly US based, they could
give pointers maybe ?
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Michael Scherer