Canada’s Privacy Community, a group of associations and individuals advocating privacy protection, has warned against enacting legislation that protects technological measures and rights management information which could be used by corporations to monitor users’ actions and choices (14) One author writes that such monitoring may inhibit expressive rights relating to receiving and imparting information and certainly raises privacy concerns (15) From the point of view of indivi ...[+++]duals’ privacy rights, legislation protecting technological measures and rights management information should be balanced with provisions protecting individuals from excessive monitoring or surveillance and from being forced into agreeing to such surveillance through contractual obligations (16) This lack of protection for users’ personal information was a fierce criticism of Bill C-60.

Ensuring an adequate level of protection and security of information systems by legal persons, for example in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services in accordance with existing Union legislation on privacy and electronic communication and data protection, forms an essential part of a comprehensive approach to effectively counteracting cybercrime.

Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (4) and Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications) (5) generally require that the privacy and data protection rights of individuals should be fully respected and adequate tec ...[+++]hnical and organisational security measures should be implemented for that purpose.

Albania shall harmonise its legislation concerning personal data protection with Community law and other European and international legislation on privacy upon the date of entry into force of this Agreement.

Privacy and security provisions will also be strengthened.

The Commission has successfully resisted this pressure on the grounds that it can only take a position once internal US processes have been completed and once it is clear that Congress's privacy concerns regarding CAPPS II have been met.