Jan Phillip Albrecht is rapporteur of the European Parliament for the EU's General Data Protection Regulation as well as for the EU-US data protection framework agreement.
The European data protection reform will replace the existing 27 data protection laws in EU member states to form a homogenous legislation regarding data privacy online as well as offline.
As the profits of many data collecting corporations are at stake, the European parliament is subject to a storm of lobbyists trying to dismantle citizens fundamental privacy rights.