US companies activate government sock puppets
While Europeans guard their privacy as sacrosanct, it appears that the US feels that they should turn over all their personal data to the Land of the Fee.
The EU has been making some moves to tighten up data protection laws after fears, particularly in Germany, that US companies are abusing the data that they receive.
These moves have worried the US companies so much that they have been on the blower to their tame politicians. US republicanism means that if you have enough money to bribe a politican with campaign contributions you can force a sort of corporate imperialism on the rest of the world.
Apparently the US has been arm twisting the European Commission to water down its data privacy plans to allow Facebook and Google and its ilk to do what they want.
What particularly got the US corporations' goat was the data protection directive and regulation which many US companies felt went too far. It proposed further enshrining the "right to be forgotten" in law, forcing companies to confess to data breaches within 24 hours and giving regulators the power to fine firms as much as two percent of their annual turnover for severe offences.
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Source: TechEye.net
By: Nick Farrell
While Europeans guard their privacy as sacrosanct, it appears that the US feels that they should turn over all their personal data to the Land of the Fee.
The EU has been making some moves to tighten up data protection laws after fears, particularly in Germany, that US companies are abusing the data that they receive.
These moves have worried the US companies so much that they have been on the blower to their tame politicians. US republicanism means that if you have enough money to bribe a politican with campaign contributions you can force a sort of corporate imperialism on the rest of the world.
Apparently the US has been arm twisting the European Commission to water down its data privacy plans to allow Facebook and Google and its ilk to do what they want.
What particularly got the US corporations' goat was the data protection directive and regulation which many US companies felt went too far. It proposed further enshrining the "right to be forgotten" in law, forcing companies to confess to data breaches within 24 hours and giving regulators the power to fine firms as much as two percent of their annual turnover for severe offences.
To Continue Reading: Click Here
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Source: TechEye.net
By: Nick Farrell
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