Privacy regulators: U.S. and EU will take different approaches
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 20/03/2012 20:19
[IDG] The development of online privacy protections is at a critical moment as policy makers in both the U.S. and European Union push for changes to their privacy rules, but coordination of enforcement across the Atlantic Ocean may be tricky, several privacy experts said Monday.
The U.S. and the E.U. have very different approaches to privacy enforcement, with the U.S. focused on enforcing privacy promises that companies make and the E.U. enforcing privacy rights even when companies make no promises, said Paul Nemitz, director of fundamental rights and citizenship at the European Commission. The E.U. sees privacy as a basic right, and "our citizens expect that these rights are enforced," he said at an E.U. conference on privacy and data protection at the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington, D.C.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/031912-privacy-regulators-us-and-eu-257435.html
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225322/Privacy_regulators_U.S._and_EU_will_take_different_approaches
www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/252133/privacy_regulators_us_and_eu_will_take_different_approaches.html
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Google Quizzed by France on Privacy Rules for Android, Cookies
Google Inc., the world's largest Web-search provider, was questioned by France's data protection authority to determine whether policies for mobile devices running its Android operating system and information collected using "cookies" violate European privacy rules.
The National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties, known by its French acronym as CNIL, asked Google to reply to the list of 69 questions on its privacy policy before April 5, according to a statement yesterday on the regulator's website.
www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-19/google-asked-by-french-regulator-to-clarify-new-privacy-rules.html
