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"Mr President, this decision could not come at a more appropriate time. It is a context whereby there is an awareness worldwide of the mass surveillance that we all now face. It is a context where the attack on privacy unleashed by the so-called war on terror has been exposed by the heroic action of Edward Snowden. I welcome the decision of the European Court of Justice to strike down this ‘snooper’s charter’. I find the response of some Members here deeply ironic, because it is their groups who allowed this to go through in three months, only eight years ago. They are the ones now saying: it is welcome, it is good, etc., while of course adding the rider that we need to fight against terrorism, which means they actually do not welcome the judgment.
Let us remember what we had here: you have privatised big brother ISPs, phone companies spying on the mass of people by logging details about their location, their text messages, their e-mails, their Internet use and storing that information for two years. Let us remember who we need to thank here: which is activists across Europe, including in Ireland, for taking up these issues, for struggling, for taking a court case in Ireland against the state, by Digital Rights Ireland, questioning the legality of Irish data retention legislation.
Let us also remember that this issue is not now done with because of all those countries that have passed a domestic law. They now need to be challenged from below. They should not have to be; the Commission should take that up. But if they do not, then they need to be challenged from below with movements and with court cases challenging this: that how can these possibly be proportional?
We also have to ensure that this victory is not undone and some of the comments by the EPP here and by the Commission’s spokesperson previously, are very worrying. The Commission’s spokesperson responded to the ruling saying that ‘we remain clearly and seriously committed to fighting crime and terrorism’. I do not really know what that has to do with this ruling, to be honest. Does it mean we are going to have more anti-democratic, big brother directives from the European Union, or will you please stop using terrorism as an excuse to invade people’s privacy?"@en1
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