Contra in Parliament for the Asimakopoulou case: “You act like a criminal organization”

The discussion of the bill entitled “Take measures to implement the European Regulation on the single market for digital services” began on the relevant committee of the House, as there was a controversy over its case At the heart of the criticism of the opposition, the case of the leak of personal data of foreign immigrants was raised by the Ministry of Interior to Anna Asimakopoulou. In response, Mr Papastergiou rejected the accusations of a degradation of the rule of law, opposing that the government never hid, while taking on an internal investigation into the case alone, alongside the judicial investigation. “Let us first make it clear that any involvement, involvement or personal data leak is something very important and as such we should treat it. In our case, we had a leak. Under no circumstances was it identified or certified by anyone that someone entered our systems which are perfectly safe. Every day we create new infrastructure and try to create even greater security safeguards. However, the human factor is always the one who could cause any problem. Our government was nowhere hidden. She was the one who took on alone to investigate the case alongside the judicial investigation, to run her own internal investigation. Mrs Kerameos was the Minister of Interior who asked for the case to go to justice and even the people who handled this issue resigned themselves to facilitate any further investigation,” Mr Papastergiou pointed out. ‘It has nothing to do with the epistolic vote’ He also said that “it has nothing to do with combining this email mission with the epistolic vote. It has nothing to do with each other, it has nothing to do with those files being stored. Apparently, they are much more secure.” “The epistolic vote is a process that is an innovative initiative really of the government, so that Greeks abroad can feel me even more Greek participating in the election. They should know that their data is safe and should be even more reliable in the next day, with what is now available and already regulated for personal data,” stressed Mr Papastergiou. . The Minister of Digital Governance, defended the bill incorporating Union legislation into Greek, stressing that “it comes to put a barrier to the omnipotence, the pan-state of the large platforms”. As Mr Papastergiou said, the new arrangements ensure, among other things: – the easy way to denounce illegal goods or services. – stronger protection for individuals targeted at online harassment and intimidation. – transparency of decisions and removal orders. Special emphasis was placed on the issue of the protection of minors, arguing that “no use of profile training is allowed to present targeted advertisements when providers know with reasonable certainty that the user is a minor.” ‘No censorship’ He also rejected objections to censorship and the risk of banning free expression of ideas, stressing that the rules of the bill “are not horizontally relevant to everyone, not to news networks, but to large online platforms, so anyone can via networks get or send the information he wants, to his own blogs so he can tell his opinion.” “About large platforms, which must ensure that contacts are quick and direct and that complaints are handled by qualified staff and non-discriminatory,” he said. He further stressed that “the platforms through the DSA should now be designed with a higher level of privacy and protection of minors or participate in codes of conduct for their protection, consider best practices and show no advertisements to minors based on profile training.” “In itself this bill converges to ensure personal data in order for their citizens to know that their data is stored at our premises, ours and the founding cloud that the General Secretariat for Information Systems has and will now be able to use their data where they wish to,” concluded Mr Papastergiou. SYRIZA: You operate with features of a criminal organization. For his part, SYRIZA’s general rapporteur, George Karameros, acknowledged the “need to incorporate the Community directive into national law in order to put a brake on the uncontrolled digital market”, but expressed doubts as to the actual objectives of the government, which he accused of a status quo. “While we have not yet received answers to the issue of interceptions another scandal shows that the government has downgraded the rule of law by stealing electoral lists. You come to legislate at the same time as you have violated all legality and 30 civil lawsuits have already been filed,” Mr. Karameros stressed and added: “ Digital culture is indeed a field of consensus. But you cannot legislate on cybersecurity while you are the first to violate it. It’s a matter of credibility with the perception of the Southwest. You must give clear answers to the case of Ms Asimakopoulou and the theft of personal digital data and you cannot fly kites.” “You operate with features of a criminal organization. You must inform what is going on by ensuring personal data so that citizens’ confidence in digital transition is not shaken,” Mr. Karameros argued. PASOK: There are ambiguity and gaps ‘We welcome and support any initiative to support and strengthen the country’s internal market as well as to ensure a fair functioning and safe environment, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises’, the rapporteur of PASOK, Ilhan Ahmet, stressed, but expressed reservations about certain provisions of the bill. ‘Through the directive a shield must be created against the dissemination of illegal content on the Internet and the risks of misinformation. We are obliged to fill every gap to ensure Internet users from the risks that exist,” he noted. At the same time, Mr Ahmet, spoke of ambiguity and legal gaps in the bill, stressing the need for clarifications while pointing out that “as regards legal representatives, the provider should be precisely defined as its main EU facility”. He also proposed that the concept of cooperation between the National Coordinator of Digital Services with other independent authorities be made clear, that the unfair practices of providers and the complaint mechanism be controlled, that the process of authentication be ensured in detail to prevent the theft of personal data. KKE: Ensuring the impartiality of digital business sectors His opposition to the bill was voiced by KKE Special Speaker Manolis Syndychakis speaking about regulation of single capitalist governance aimed at supporting and ensuring the increase in the profits of large digital groups, “Ensuring the impartiality of digital business sectors denies all control and assigns everything to their obligations for self-control. “In practice the EU plays the role of traffic law support groups and the government with inexpensive wishes without legal commitments but with ideas reports is the sole objective of the EETT to assume this role by ridding major platform entrepreneurs of all responsibility The digitization takes place within the framework of the capitalist system which is increasingly hostile towards the people. With the bill, the government implements aspects of an overall EU policy that sees the digital economy as a way of shielding capital,” Mr. Syndychakis stressed. Greek Solution: In our minds there is the attempted fraud of the European elections Criticism towards the government appeared the special speaker of the Greek Solution, Kostas Hetas, linking her legislative initiative with the case of Ms Asimakopoulou. “We think about cybersecurity while in our mind there is the attempted fraud of the European elections. The government’s legislation on the digital environment and tackling the illegal trafficking of digital services at the same time as thousands of civilian elements are exposed, is at least comical. You are exposed,” said Mr. Hetas. He further stressed that “an effective network of protection of personal data should be established for Internet users to have consumer protection and security safeguards.” “The fundamental rights of citizens to free expression cannot be curtailed or trampled into the name of fighting the uncontrolled digital market,” he said. As Mr. Heatas argued, “in the bill there are vagueities, many authorities are involved, over-authorities and rights are given to the EETT, while there is no report from their general accounting state on budgetary implications, no timetable for the implementation of measures, and procedures are time-consuming.” “The important thing is to shield systems and protect citizens. But how is it possible for a government that hangs on the wipes for stealing the personal data of thousands of citizens to seize their vote in the European elections,” he concluded. New Left: Asimakopoulos and Kerameos Gate The special speaker of the New Left, Theano Fotiou, spoke of “Asimakopoulos and Kerameos Gate” while reserved for the bill describing it as unclear, vague and incomplete. At the same time, he criticised the government for “assigning a dominant role to the EETT while digital giants can continue to do whatever they want without sufficiently explaining their legitimate interest.” “The great alleged reform announced by the government has gaps and vagueities. The provider decides what’s best for him. Nowhere are the obligations of major providers specified, how they should operate in Greece and what happens if they do not comply. We give the EETT excessive powers when it has done nothing about either the Asimakopoulou electronic scandal or the interceptions. You say it is a supposedly independent authority, but it is defined by the government and is completely dependent. Large digital companies and traders will hardly be upset about how the regulation will apply in Greece,” said Ms Fotiou. Spartans: Large deviations of the bill from the original EU Convention “For large deviations of the bill from the authentic EU Convention and its central idea of protecting users from reckless practices, the special speaker of the Spartans, Giannis Kontis, spoke. As he said, “all will be determined by the National Coordinator”, while expressing strong reservations “for the protection of users from illegal access to their personal data and their dissemination”. He argued that “on the pretext of safe use of the internet and political correctness involves the risk of silenced the democratic and free expression of ideas.” “We must protect the Charter of Fundamental Rights of Citizens, not the great digital sharks of information technology and ensure freedom of different ideological views. We say yes to protecting citizens from misuse of the Internet but not in the folder of ideas,” he concluded. Victory: Basic individual rights are now being questioned by the EU. Against the bill was the special speaker of NIKI, George Apostolakis, claiming that basic individual rights are now being questioned by the EU. “The EU authorises the European Commission to exert significant pressure on digital platforms to deliberately restrict hate speech, misinformation and threats. Meanings extremely vague and dangerously vague. These are essentially political restrictions. It will hold the freedom of speech constantly hostage to the ideological tendencies of the ruling class narrative, which elected European officials express,” he said. Freedom Freeway: She affirms the decline of the rule of law Reservations voiced by the special speaker of the Freedom of the Sea, Eleni Karageorgopoulou, stressing that “it is necessary to introduce necessary measures for the safety of internet users but the question is how to address the problem without restricting citizens’ rights.” As he said, “the involvement of such independent authorities in controlling the major digital providers who are declaring the bill, certify the decline of the rule of law in our country and formalise the government’s shift to statusist practices for power control.”