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EU countries likely to drag out data privacy talks this week |
June 03, 2014
New rules governing who handles EU consumers’ privacy complaints will not be agreed to Friday, despite being on the agenda for member states to discuss.Justice and Home Affairs ministers from the EU’s 28 member states will meet to talk about the proposed Data Protection Regulation, specifically plans to create a so-called one-stop-shop principle.There has been much disagreement between member states about which authorities should handle complaints about the misuse of data when the companies and complainants are in different countries. A “discussion text” released last week attempted to resolve the issue by proposing more powers for the data protection authority in which the individual consumer or complainant is based—the local authority—while maintaining the one-stop-shop principle of a “lead authority” in the country of the accused company.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2359160/eu-countries-likely-to-drag-out-data-privacy-talks-this-week.html#tk.rss_all
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