Where Euro Parliament candidates stand on digital rights

Glyn sez, "If you're in Europe you may be considering who you should vote for in the up coming European elections. To help you the Open Rights Group sent a questionnaire to UK MEP candidates, asking them where they stand on digital rights issues."

Does your privacy, fair copyright, data retention and keeping the internet open matter to your MEP candidates? We've asked the main candidates what they think about four issues ORG campaigns on. You can see how the parties have done - both how many have responded, and what they have said. You can then judge for yourself who deserves your vote. You can also help by asking candidates who haven't responded to give us an answer, which we will then display on the website. All the candidate details are publicly available from party or campaign websites, and where we have found them, we have also added these to our site. If you do contact a candidate, please remember to be polite and helpful.

Do Your MEP Candidates Agree with ORG? (Thanks, Glyn!)

[#1 posted by Mr.Sauli, May 29, 2009 2:37 PM]

Does anyone know of any similar resources in other EU countries? For me particularly, Dutch MEP candidates are of interest...

[#2 posted by Anonymous, May 29, 2009 4:14 PM]

Funny how the Green Party is the one with the most MEPs who bothered to respond (in a positive way on top of that!). Either the other parties are wildly underestimating how important these issues are, or maybe they'd rather keep silent rather than giving an orwellian response...

[#3 posted by Pantograph, May 30, 2009 2:34 AM]

@ #1 seconded, since the Dutch faction of the Pirate Party doesn't appear to be in the race. It'll probably be another vote for Nobody this year. (Damn those "Groen Links" campaigners in front of my store scaring away my customers. They've just lost my vote.)