Companies based
outside the European Union must meet Europe's data protection rules,
ministers agreed on Friday, although governments remain divided over how
to enforce them on companies operating across the bloc.
The agreement to force Internet companies such as Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O)
to abide by EU-wide rules is a first step in a wider reform package to
tighten privacy laws - an issue that has gained prominence following
revelations of U.S. spying in Europe.
Vodafone's (VOD.L)
disclosure on Friday of the extent of telephone call surveillance in
European countries showed the practice is not limited to the United
States. The world's second-largest mobile phone company, Vodafone is
headquartered in the United Kingdom.
A "one-stop-shop" arrangement would allow
companies to deal exclusively with the data protection authority in the
country where it has its main establishment. But governments are
concerned about a foreign data protection authority making binding
decisions that they would then have to enforce.
By Julia Fioretti
read full article at Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/06/us-eu-dataprotection-idUSKBN0EH1ER20140606
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