The *** has hit the fan.
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De PvdA heeft kamervragen gesteld naar aanleiding van de berichtgeving van Ereaders.nl.
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"The PvdA (Partij van de Arbeid, basically the Labor Party) has asked questions in parliament because of the news posted on EReaders.nl."
One of the questions was:
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Is het waar dat webwinkels die aangesloten zijn op het distributieplatform eBoekhuis verplicht kunnen worden om klantinformatie door te geven aan Stichting BREIN? Zo ja, hoe verhoudt het doorgeven van dergelijke informatie aan derden zich tot de wet- en regelgeving ten aanzien van de bescherming van de persoonlijke levenssfeer? Zo nee, wat is er dan niet waar aan het gestelde?
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"Is it true that web stores connected to the distribution platform eBoekhuis can be compelled to submit customer information to Foundation BREIN? If yes, how does submitting this sort of information to third parties relate to the laws and regulations with regard to to the protections of personal data? If no, then what is not true in the above statement?"
Summarized, the situation is this: eBoekhuis (the biggest, maybe even only distributor o Dutch ebooks in the Netherlands), in cooperation with BREIN, has created a contract for ebook stores, that says that these stores must provide personal data of customers to BREIN upon BREIN's request. However, at least one politician is of the opinion that this contact is not legally valid, as eBoekhuis does not have (or at least, does not seem to have, at this moment) any legal powers to back up this contract, and BREIN does not have (or does not seem to have, at this moment) any legal right to demand or request this personal data.
I wonder what the result of these queries is going to be.
(PS: eBoekhuis is part of, or owned by, Centraal Boekhuis.)