Activities of Amelia ANDERSDOTTER related to 2013/2063(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe PDF (324 KB) DOC (179 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the vendor benefits of cloud services consist of e.g. service fees, monetisation of excess computing resources and the possibility of a captive customer base and of secondary uses of user information, such as for advertising(so called lock-in effect); whereas a lock-in effect can have competitive disadvantages that nevertheless can be dealt with through reasonable standardisation measures and better transparency on intellectual property licensing agreements;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the cloud also brings risks to userstechnological fact that if cloud processing is done in a particular country, the authorities of that country, including the security services, have access to the data; notes that this has implications from an industrial espionage perspective as well as for instance from the perspective of safety of persons in political exile; asks the Commission to take this into account when issuing proposals and recommendations regarding cloud computing;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas cloud services oblige users to hand over information to third party providerse cloud storage provider, a third party, raising issues relating to the continued control over and access to the information of individual users and its protection against the provider itself, other users of the same service and other parties; whereas encouragement of services which allow for the user and only the user to hold keys to the users' information, without the cloud storage provider themselves being able to access that information, could solve some of the issues around this problem;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas, from a security perspective, the introduction of cloud services means that the responsibility for maintaining the security of information belonging to each individual user is shifted from the individual to the provider, be it a private person, a business entity or a public institution, is shifted from the user of the service to the provider of the service, thereby raising the need to ensure that service providers have the legal ability to provide secure and robust solutions for communication;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that Union law should be neutral and, absent compelling reasons of public interest, not be adapted to either facilitate or hinder any legal business model or servictechnologically neutral and clear in terms of its legal framework as well as the business models or services we envisage, for the public sector actors, small and medium-sized enterprises and private citizens alike;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that some features may have to be introduced on the radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment layer in order to prevent the infringement of personal data and privacy rights of the user, or confidential business rights of an enterprise, in such a way that technological innovation and the meeting of the needs of a free-market economy are spurred, rather than hindered;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
1b. Calls for the introduction of regulatory measures to ensure responsible vulnerability disclosure in a short, but reasonable, time-limit, thereby effectively providing an incentive for security flaws and accidental errors to get fixed;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – point ii
Paragraph 11 – point ii
(ii) sponsor research in technologies, including encrypand commercial deployment or public procurement of technologies, such as encryption and anonymization, enabling users to secure their information in an easy way;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises the importance of ensuring a competitive and transparent Union market in order to provide all Union users with secure, sustainable, affordable and reliable services; calls for a simple, transparent method to identify security flaws in such a way that service providers on the European market have a sufficient and appropriate incentive to remedy such flaws;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Encourages public administrations to consider safeprivacy friendly, reliable and secure cloud services in IT procurement, whilethus underlining their particular responsibilities with respect to protection of information relating to citizens, accessibility and continuity of service;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Notes that because of increased use of cloud services by the public sector, citizens must be given the options to explicitly opt in or oppose to the use of their data in cloud services. This right should be particularly explicit in the case of children and eHealth services, since children are not able to make decisions for themselves;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to take the lead in developing and promulgating standards and specifications supporting a safeprivacy friendly, reliable and secure cloud services as an integral part of a future European industrial policy;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to ensure that consumer devices should not make use of cloud services by default or be restricted to any specific cloud service provider;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission to propose that Directive 99/5/EC on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity is amended in such a way that the security and confidentiality of correspondence and communications is seen as an essential requirement in all radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment, in order to provide a valuable base for European equipment manufacturers to cultivate their own particular niche;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Stresses that the information thus provided should identify, among other things, who the ultimate provider of the service is and how the service is financed; stresses, furthermore, that if the service is financed by using users' information to target advertising or to enable others to do so, this should be disclosed to the user; process information for the purpose of targeting advertisement, every specific instance of this re-use should be separately presented to the user for them to give prior, informed consent;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses that the information should be in a standardised, portable, easily comprehensible and comparable format;