Well, we tried to report as objectively as possible our concerns with the first draft PIA and the description of this program and what it was set out to do. It was something that we had never seen before as a proposal, and what we understood was that it was a proposal to scan the web for indications of political activity. In talking with the commission, it was agreed to take it back, look at the program, and provide us with a new privacy impact assessment.
I think somewhere there's an acknowledgment that perhaps we have raised some relevant questions, such as, “Why this program?” In order to scan somebody's political activities outside of the government.... Has there been something like a radical increase in the remarked political activities of civil servants that would cause this? What we understood was that it was looking at personal websites, at blogs and so on.
Anyway, we're waiting for the second version of this, and we hope we can continue dialoguing about this and see eye to eye on it.