is article 25 in eu contentious?

Answer 1

Yes, Article 25 has been debated a lot in the european union.

Many people still oppose it.

Answer 2

Definitely.

Transfers of personal data are highly contentious.

The main stumbling block is privacy. Given that more and more of our activities are going online, or are tracked in various databases, our lives can, to a large degree, be reconstructed if the databases are brought together. I work in the field, and sometimes feel like a voyeur, although, at my end, the data is anonymised.

Now imagine if that data were not anonymised, and worse that people you do not deal with at all have access to it. Where would it stop?

Secondly, we have no idea where the data will end up. Sometime back, there was an article in the press about terrorists and what they eat on planes. I'm just a bit sceptical about what hare brained theories could be tested, and what treatment, given individual data would be made available by Article 25, would anybody get; some would be unnecessarily treated much worse than if the data had not been shared.

There is also the idea of reciprocity. Article 25 does not take into account whether the exchange of data is a two-way affair. To many people, it seems that the EU is at the losing end, giving away data and not getting anything in return.

Also there are questions regarding how long the data will be kept, who might have access to that data, and the very simple truth that once data is given out, nobody can retrieve it back and wipe it off all unauthorised drives.

Answer 3

Are not ALL EU articles contentious ??