EU privacy watchdog warns of internet spying threat


illustrationReuters/EurActive.com – The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – signed by 22 of the EU’s 27 countries, the US and Japan among others but not ratified by any of them – is one of several, including the US-based draft copyright bills SOPA and PIPA, to fall foul of public opinion.

Measures “could involve the large-scale monitoring of users’ behaviour and of their electronic communications,” they warned, saying this would go “beyond what is allowed under EU law”. more> http://is.gd/LGoe2i

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