European Privacy Association
The European Privacy Association is a Brussels based organisation that described itself as a think tank on the European Transparency Register until a complaint from Corporate Europe Observatory after which it changed its entry to 'In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations and more precisely: Trade, business & professional associations'.[1]
A report in the Financial Times referred to is as an 'astroturf' organisation.[2] Though his letter to the Financial Times was headlined ‘“Astroturfing” does not describe EPA’ its ‘Scientific Director’ Paolo Balboni did not deny the label saying merely that it was ‘offensive’. [3]
Resources
- Tobacco Tactics European Privacy Association
- European Transparency Register European Privacy Association
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Notes
- ↑ Corporate Europe Observatory ‘Complaint forces European Privacy Association to confirm Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are corporate backers’, 18 June 2013. Accessed 12 July 2014.
- ↑ Fontanella-Khan, James ‘Brussels: Astroturfing takes root: The EU has been swamped by aggressive lobbyists funded by large US tech companies’. Financial Times. June 27, 2013: 11. Accessed 12 July 2014.
- ↑ Paolo Balboni ‘”Astroturfing” does not describe EPA’ Letters to the Editor, Financial Times. 2 July 2013: 8.
