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Banned from a meeting because of GDPR by the Romanian Ministry of Education
- campuscodi 8y agoFirst case here: https://www.occrp.org/en/40-press-releases/presss-releases/8875-occrp-strongly-objects-to-romania-s-misuse-of-gdpr-to-muzzle-media https://www.occrp.org/en/40-press-releases/presss-releases/8...
- ccnafr 8y agoShe also has a Facebook post with more info here: https://www.facebook.com/andrada.fiscutean/posts/10217766665427316 https://www.facebook.com/andrada.fiscutean/posts/10217766665...
- alexgotoi 8y agoRomania is probably the only country in EU that is moving back instead of going forward. The corruption is killing this country and the vast majority of the people are to weak and greed, so they accept the salary and pension increases to stay quiet... Too bad, in a world with so much access to information and especially history, the populism and socialism still thrive in a country like Romania. PS: I am from Romania.
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- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> Romania is probably the only country in EU that is moving back Poland and Hungary are teetering while Austria, Italy, Germany, Sweden and France grapple with varieties of fascist and neo-Nazi ascdendancy.
- alexgotoi 8y agoI understand that there is a period in time where nationalism is gaining attention, but Romania is special because the leaders were part of old communism party or have been mentored by them... There are people saying that was better under Ceausescu's regime.
- rsynnott 8y agoAlso, the UK is about to commit national suicide.
- Tarq0n 8y agoThat sounds needlessly apocalyptic to me. If the British are lucky their financial industry will falter a little and the rest of the country will benefit from a reduction in the Dutch disease that has been plaguing their economy.
- toyg 8y agoPlaguing what? Bar the 2008 crisis, the UK economy has been pretty healthy since the ‘90s at least. It’s the reason it attracts a high number of economic migrants from the rest of the EU, it holds a lot of European and global HQs and so on. Of course, manufacturing is what it is; but Brexit won’t magically make China disappear.
- who-knows95 8y agocan you give a inside view into whats going on?
- alexgotoi 8y agoRead the entire 2017-2018 story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932018_Romanian_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932018_Romanian_pro...
- fredley 8y ago> Romania is probably the only country in EU that is moving back Hahahahahahaha. Sincerely, a Brit.
- lubonay 8y agoBulgaria is stagnating and growing more corrupt... even though we are already very corrupt to begin with!
- riffraff 8y agoHungary and Poland are not really doing well these days, from a political perspective. I only know what's going on in Poland through the news but I am based in budapest and believe me, the democracy here is suffering a lot.
- claudiawerner 8y ago> the populism and socialism still thrive in a country like Romania. I'm not sure about populism, but I'm not sure how socialism is to blame here, or at least socialism in general - any more than capitalism is to blame for the misfortunes of any other country, for instance.
- lihaciudaniel 8y agoI would like to also highlight this, there is a good talk show (in Romanian) to explain how much privatization of communist firms: https://youtu.be/q_s69-XYGeg https://youtu.be/q_s69-XYGeg
- AdmiralAsshat 8y agoWhat specifically about the 2016/679 directive allows the government to fine a company or individual for not revealing their source?
- SiempreViernes 8y agoShe was prevented from attending a meeting where they would discuss who in the current government had faked their PhDs, I think it's clear "GDPR" was just the word they waved around as a the token flimsy excuse. She could (almost) equally as likely been prevented from attending "for her own safety" if the ladies toilet had ran out of toilet paper.
- JumpCrisscross 8y agoGDPR’s investigation and mediation sections were broadly written. Whenever I brought this up, it was thrown down with variants of “you’re American; European governments can be trusted to be nice.”
- SiempreViernes 8y agoThis sort of obvious misapplication of law can't be prevented by anything sort of making entirely pointless laws nobody will bother with. It is a pretty hollow objection to say that "this law is being misused in regions where law is applied arbitrarily!".
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- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> This sort of obvious misapplication of law can't be prevented Sure it can. Complain-and-investigate frameworks are among the more onerous regulatory designs. America features them in its securities regulations, but that's because nothing short of a high-calibre solution was working. Other options include absolute liability, negotiated settlement, reporting & monitoring, subsidized mediation & arbitration and combinations thereof. If one really wanted a complain-and-investigate model, a single European enforcement body would have been superior to letting each of the EU's members interpret and enforce the regulation to their preferences. These issues were brought up early, often and loudly. Unfortunately, opposition to the law was repeatedly conflated with opposition to its aims.
- blub 8y agoIncorrect title. They're forbidding a journalist to join a policy meeting because of GDPR, which makes zero sense... What became of their other attempt at abuse? Can't find anything new about it.
- sctb 8y agoWe've updated the title from the submitted “Romanian government abusing GDPR (again) to go after journalists” to something closer to the original text.