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"I have two comments: one to Parliament (to my colleagues), and one, I am afraid, to the Council. The first to my parliamentary colleagues. I predicted at the beginning of this debate that there was going to be a high quality of debate, for a very simple reason: unlike all the Member States, this Parliament embarked on an inquiry having already started on the data protection regulation.
The maturity and expertise in this Parliament should not be doubted. And I say to my colleagues who are tabling amendments and who have worked so hard, who came to Washington, who sat through hours of testimony and did their work, to my colleague who led the Echelon inquiry: all of you are doing what none of the Member States have done.
This is the only international inquiry into mass surveillance – into the most sensitive issue, our intelligence services, which do a brilliant job, in defending us and in dealing with cybersecurity, the most sensitive issue – and we had to deal with that and deal with this issue of mass surveillance. There are no more sensitive fundamental rights issues than this, and here was the expertise in this Parliament. I was not the full expert on this issue but I witnessed this – sometimes passionate – debate today, and I am very pleased to have heard what I have heard today.
I would say to my colleagues in Parliament that when we look at this digital bill of rights, which I believe is fit for the surveillance age, there will be aspects of it dealing with Safe Harbour, TFTP and so on, which may not be exactly to the taste of everyone. But I would say to you: look at the fact that we have built a digital bill of rights, a digital habeas corpus, which is sellable to our citizens, because this is about fundamental rights.
I would say to the Council – and please forgive me for saying this – that the reason we need to have a unified voice tomorrow in the vote is because Parliament is so unique. Even Congress in the United States has not had an inquiry. Edward Snowdon has not given evidence to Congress.
Here we had our inquiry, and I would say to the Council, which has been silent on all of these things, that tomorrow, if we vote in favour of this report and a digital bill of rights – a digital habeas corpus fit for our surveillance age – we will be sending a message to our citizens that this Parliament is capable across the political groups of answering their concerns in a comprehsive and balanced way."@en1
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