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Resistance to EU data protection law adds to red tape for Facebook, Google |
December 11, 2013
With European data protection supervisors saying they are not ready for the proposed E.U. data protection law, multinationals such as Facebook and Google are being left to contend with 28 different legal frameworks to address the issue across the region.The proposed law suffered a blow last Friday when the Council of Ministers failed to reach agreement on the controversial “one-stop shop” regulator. This proposal would allow multinational companies to deal only with the privacy regulator of the member state in which the company is established. This has particular implications for the Irish regulator where Google, Facebook and LinkedIn are registered.Willem Debeuckelaere, chairman of the Belgian Data Protection Authority, said Wednesday that he was glad talks on the proposed Data Protection Regulation had stalled. He described the one-stop shop idea as “crazy”. “We are not ready, not at all!” said Debeuckelaere. “I am happy that there are now a lot of problems.”But Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes said that in principle a one-stop shop is a logical idea, though he called it a “mixed blessing” from an Irish perspective.”I wouldn’t be viewing it with any great enthusiasm due to having to deal with all these tech companies in Ireland, but it is a shame talks have broken down over a mechanism rather than the principles of the law,” he saidTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079240/resistance-to-eu-data-protection-law-adds-to-red-tape-for-facebook-google.html#tk.rss_all
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