Germany wants to protect data
17
Feb
In her weekly podcast (posted video), the prime minister of Germany, Angela Merkel, said: “We will talk to France regarding how can we have a good level of data protection” and added: “above all, we´ll talk about suppliers that give security to our citizens, so we will not have to send emails and other information to the other side of the Atlantic”, she said about data surveillance.
Merkel noted that companies like Google and Facebook have their operations not only in countries with little data protection, but are still active in others, such as Germany, which has a high degree/grade of data protection.
In Germany, where there have already been periods of extreme vigilance, as in the time of the Nazism and also in the former GDR, the communist part of Germany, there is a great suspicion about data control and lots of worries concerning privacy, and may impose a privacy policy, making Google and Facebook respect the German law.
In France, Hollande‘s office confirmed that the idea has already been presented and France agrees with it. “It is important that we take the initiative together”, said a French responsible quoted by Deutsche Welle.
The initiative will tend to expand to Europe, it is better than spreading a neurosis about data privacy, the governments are the ones who should take concrete action to protect its citizens and not to forbid or create disincentives to the use of these democratic means.
