By the way, the new EU data protection (i.e., privacy) directive is being written _right now_ and consumer representatives (or activists) report that there is a massive lobbying effort underway to weaken current privacy standards. Given the revelations of recent days, now might be a good time to support those that want a stronger data protection directive.
> now might be a good time to support those that want a stronger data protection directive.
I already donate to Bits of Freedom and the Dutch Pirate Party (actually I need to double check the latter) since quite a while, but I'm not sure how that directly helps an EU directive being written right now.
Any ideas? EU stuff is notoriously "far away" and hard to reach or affect (which is the one thing I really dislike about the EU, they silently passed some ridiculous things that would never fly in NL).
