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Contacting Your (European) Member of Parliament/Representative to Report EPO-Microsoft GDPR Abuses

Summary: We urge Techrights readers who are European to raise concerns and explain to local politicians why the EPO should enjoy impunity no more; the latest scandal, which we're exposing, should be sufficient legal ground

THE latest António Campinos scandal concerns privacy violations and illegal contracts with Microsoft, an American company notorious for privacy abuses and bribery.



"Tell them that Europe's second-largest institution is breaking the law, enabling illegal surveillance on many people."We urge anyone who is reading this and is a European citizen to contact political representatives. Who represents you? Check this page.

MEPs list

The above is an example for Belgium.

"Time to raid the offices of EPO managers, just as authorities in Europe raided Microsoft's offices for rampant corruption."Remember that the UK is also (still) in the EPO (and has historically been outspoken at times regarding Benoît Battistelli), so a partly outdated list of representatives (pre-Brexit, before departure from EU) is available online too. They have contacts and can still sway things inside the EPO, at the very least through UK-IPO and delegates to the Administrative Council of the EPO, set to 'meet' again just over a week from now. Here's an example of UK MEPs for one region of the UK (there are more in the page):

UK MEP

Tell them that Europe's second-largest institution is breaking the law, enabling illegal surveillance on many people. It's possible that this has been done for personal financial gain. An investigation is long overdue. There's no reason to honour diplomatic immunity anymore. Time to raid the offices of EPO managers, just as authorities in Europe raided Microsoft's offices for rampant corruption.

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