11 Amendments of Gianni VATTIMO related to 2013/2188(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas blanket mass surveillance of citizens, in the absence of any suspicion, evidence, or charge and without the prior authorisation of a court, or under systems that are weak in terms of legal remedies and democratic control, is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes which trample on citizens’ rights and freedoms; whereas European countries, having endured totalitarian regimes of that kind and the tragedy of the two world wars, are particularly aware of that fact; whereas the ECHR, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, national constitutions, and laws provide a number of safeguards to preserve the right to privacy and data protection and restrict the powers and actions of intelligence agencies, and these are of vital importance;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the recent statements and initiatives by President Barack Obama concerning reform of US intelligence activities, though a step in the right direction, are vaguely couched and confined to the principles to observe and do not make any specific change to the law that would genuinely protect citizens, European and otherwise, political and business leaders included, who have been spied upon in vast numbers by US agencies under their surveillance programmes;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it very doubtfulIs extremely alarmed at the fact that data collection of such magnitude is only guided by the fight against terrorism, as it, involvesing the collection of all possible data of all citizens; points therefore to the possible existence of other power motives such as political and economic espionage, appears in reality to stem from other motives having to do with influence, power, and supremacy, such as political, economic, industrial, and military espionage, as can be seen, moreover, from the information that has leaked out to date (spying on companies, politicians, ministers, international meetings, etc.);
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on certain EU Member States, including the UK, Germany, France, Sweden and the Netherlands, to revise where necessary their national legislation and practices governing the activities of intelligence services so as to ensure that they are in line with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights and comply with their fundamental rights obligations as regards data protection, privacy and presumption of innocence; in particular, given the extensive media reports referring to mass surveillance in the UK, would emphasises that the current legal framework which is made up of a ‘complex interaction’ between three separate pieces of legislation – the Human Rights Act 1998, the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 – should be revisedmust be revised as a matter of urgency; considers that the continued existence of such sweeping mass surveillance programmes and espionage operations (spying on international meetings, for instance), especially if these are conducted for or in collaboration with non-EU countries, is evidence of a very serious conflict of interest, allegiance, and loyalty, one that is at odds with the EU Treaties and dangerous to European aims and interests and one which the EU and the Member States concerned have to resolve without fail;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Believes that companies which have collaborated or are involved in mass surveillance operations under the programmes of the US or other European or non-European countries and have failed to inform the European authorities about the conflict of laws should be scrutinised without delay and a decision taken on their exclusion from the Safe Harbour arrangement;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 a (new)
Paragraph 76 a (new)
76a. Calls on the Member States, should they receive further requests to that effect, to grant political asylum and international protection to Edward Snowden and to any other whistle-blower who exposes serious and systematic violations of European citizens’ fundamental rights;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 b (new)
Paragraph 76 b (new)
76b. Condemns the attitude of the Member States to which Edward Snowden applied for asylum and which, under pressure from the US, resorted to legal quibbles in order to deny or ignore his requests, an attitude that is further illustrated by the shambolic but serious diplomatic incident last July, in which the aircraft carrying President Evo Morales of Bolivia was refused permission to overfly, or land or refuel in, certain European countries because they feared that Snowden was hiding on board;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 102 a (new)
Paragraph 102 a (new)
102a. Urges the US authorities – the President, Congress, the Senate, intelligence agencies, and the judiciary – to implement the reforms promised to the Europeans in the dialogues with the EU and its Member States concerning the guarantees and entitlements to be accorded to European citizens in order that they may be spared needless mass surveillance and that their rights to privacy and data protection may be respected, this being a sine qua non for any cooperation with the US as regards the exchange of personal data;
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109 a (new)
Paragraph 109 a (new)
109a. Calls on the Member States to throw full light on espionage programmes and operations affecting their own citizens, citizens of other Member States and non-EU countries, and European institutions; calls on the Commission to start an initiative with a view to ascertaining whether Articles 2 and 4 TEU have been infringed in the EU and to take such steps as might prove necessary, not least as regards the compatibility of those programmes and operations with the Internal Security Strategy;
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109 b (new)
Paragraph 109 b (new)
109b. Repeats the assertion in the resolution of 4 July 2013 that ‘in democratic and open states based on the rule of law, citizens have a right to know about serious violations of their fundamental rights and to denounce them, including those involving their own government’ and again ‘stresses the need for procedures allowing whistleblowers to unveil serious violations of fundamental rights and the need to provide such people with the necessary protection’, and calls on the Member States, therefore, to provide that protection;
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 112
Paragraph 112
112. Calls on the Member States to develop a coherent and strong strategy within the United Nations, supporting in particular the resolution on ‘The right to privacy in the digital age’ initiated by Brazil and Germany, as adopted by the third UN General Assembly Committee (Human Rights Committee) on 27 November 2013, and to take any other bilateral, multilateral, or international initiative serving to safeguard the fundamental right to privacy and data protection and strengthen it at international level and in relation to state authorities and private companies;