Google Data Chief Says ‘Flawed’ EU Privacy Law Is Dead

Re:Google Data Chief Says ‘Flawed’ EU Privacy Law Is Dead by codev on Thursday January 09, 2014 @05:02AM (#7029620)

Ugh, I would have hoped by now we'd be moving to the US implementing privacy laws. Instead it seems like we're moving in the opposite direction. Corporations are learning how to spend money in the EU to stop pro-consumer legislation as effectively as they do in the house and senate. So we're stuck with out of date legislation.

I just hope that this is Google being desperate and trying to use PR to stop the new data protection guidelines because their lobbying efforts are faltering.

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Re:Google Data Chief Says ‘Flawed’ EU Privacy Law Is Dead by nraynaud on Thursday January 09, 2014 @08:40AM (#7030368)

I always assumed that the mess that is the EU (I mean 27 countries, 24 official languages) would somehow be protecting it from corporate lobbying. I guess I was wrong, everybody speaks english in Brussels.

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