Activities of Jan Philipp ALBRECHT related to 2015/2147(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Towards a Digital Single Market Act
Amendments (11)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for measures to tackle illegal content on the internet that will be in compliance with the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information and with the principle of due process; considers that, in order to achieve that goal, it is necessary to provide appropriate law enforcement tools, to support public- private partnerships and cooperation, to consider the role of intermediaries, and to promote education and awareness-raising campaigns;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the fact that the fast-growing number of attacks on networks and acts of cybercrimerime in an online environment calls for a harmonised EU response with a view to ensuring a high level of cybersecurity; believes that providing security on the internet means protecting networks and critical infrastructure, the ability of law enforcement agencies to fight criminality, including terrorism, radicalisation and child pornography, and the use of the necessary data to fight crime online and offline; stresses that security, thus defined, is necessary to reinforce trust in digital services and the processing of personal datainformation security;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Believes that providing security on the internet means protecting networks, information, and critical infrastructure, the ability of law enforcement agencies to fight criminality, and limiting the use of data to what is strictly necessary to fight crime online and offline; stresses that security, thus defined, is necessary to reinforce trust in digital services and the processing of personal data;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Stresses that commercial software and hardware producers shall be held responsible despite non liability clauses in users' agreement in case of gross negligence regarding safety and security;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Warns for the obvious downward spiral for the fundamental right to privacy and personal data protection when every bit of information on human behaviour is considered to be potentially useful in combatting future criminal acts, necessarily resulting in a mass surveillance culture where every citizen is treated as a potential suspect and leading to corrosion of societal coherence and trust;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to actively contribute to reach an ambitious agreement for the final adoption of the Directive on the Network Information Security with a view to adopt a new consistent regulatory framework to secure strategic and operational cyber security both at EU and national levels while ensuring data protection for businesses, public administration and citizens;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that big data, cloud services, the Internet of Things, research and innovation are key to economic development; believes that data protection safeguards and security are crucial for building trust in the data-driven economy sector; stresses the need to raise awarenesscalls for R&D to include research ofn the role of data and data- sharing consequences of using big data in certain ways, including the economrisk of drawing wrong conclusions based on merely rand to clarify data ownership rules; underlines the role of personom correlations, and also to address the ethical and moral questions, such as statistics-based "normaliszation" of scervices and products that should be developed as a balanced solutain behaviours and the impact on individual freedoms; calls on the Commission to review the EU's regulatory framework on consumer protection, in compliance with data protection requirements; calls for the promotion of privacy by default and by design; underlines the importance of a risk-based approach in data protection legislation, especially for SMEsparticular the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, in light of the risks of fraudulent or discriminatory behaviour linked to the use of big data, in particular regarding the personalised tracking, targeting and pricing;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses the need to raise awareness of the role of data and data-sharing in the economy and urges the Commission to clarify data ownership rules; emphasises that ownership rules do not apply to personal data; underlines the role of personalisation of services and products that should be developed as a balanced solution in compliance with data protection requirements leaving the sovereignty of decision making on personal data to the concerned individual, the execution of a contract or the provision of a service shall not be made conditional on the consent to the processing of data that is not necessary for the execution of the contract or the provision of the service;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Subheading 4.1 a (new)
Subheading 4.1 a (new)
4.1 a. Calls for the promotion of privacy and data protection by default and by design; underlines the importance of a risk-based approach in data protection legislation taking into account the nature scope, context and purpose of the processing, including small and micro enterprises;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Subheading 4.1 b (new)
Subheading 4.1 b (new)
4.1 b. Stresses that personal data needs special protection, as enshrined in Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and that the digital single market can and should to a huge extent be based on anonymous or anonymized data;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes in its ruling of 6 October 2015 the Court of Justice declaring invalid the Commission Adequacy Decision 2000/520 on the US Safe Harbour which has confirmed the long standing position of the Parliament regarding the lack of adequate level of protection of this instrument; calls on the Commission, taking into account any indiscriminate mass surveillance activities, to immediately take the necessary measures to ensure that all personal data transferred to the US is subject to an effective level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the European Union.