The British authorities tasked with upholding data protection legislation, the Information Commission Office, did not punish either Phorm or BT as a result.
Such information is exempt under FOI laws, Mr Bercow adds, and the principle of upholding data protection rights should take precedence over any public interest in releasing the information - since doing so "would/might expose members to risk".
"Remember that you're here in the European Union where we created GDPR so we ask you to make a legal and moral commitment, if you can, to uphold EU data protection law, to think about ePrivacy, to protect the privacy of European users and the many millions of European citizens and non-Facebook users as well," said the Libe committee chair.
So far none of the British bodies responsible for upholding European-Union data protection laws have punished Phorm or BT for testing the technology without consent, despite complaints from Internet users and Web privacy advocates.
Case-in-point, network equipment vendors have a responsibility to deploy solutions that are secure and uphold industry standards for data protection and integrity such as the Network Equipment Security Scheme NESAA) spearheaded by the GSMA and 3GPP.
However, appropriate safeguards must be implemented so that these data can be accessed and used for research whilst data protection is upheld.
Even as it fails to uphold the red lines of European data protection law.
Even as it fails to uphold the red lines of European data protection law.
In an EC press conference on the ECJ ruling today, FVP of the Commission, Frans Timmermans, said: "Today's judgement by the court is an important step towards upholding European's fundamental rights to data protection.
Data protection legislation is not about protecting data; its about protecting people.
We are continuing to work with the NCSC plus other relevant authorities in the UK and overseas to ensure the data protection interests of UK citizens are upheld.
