Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
The European Union sparked an intercontinental furor last year with proposed legislation to supersede the 1995 Data Protection Directive (DPD). The EU Parliament approved legislation in a 49-3 committee vote in October. The text, which is not yet published in its current draft at the time of this writing, may yet be amended before being accepted by the union’s 28 member states. The legislation is billed a money saver because it would harmonize EU member states’ data protection laws, which have diverged under the DPD umbrella. The business community is not convinced, fearful that costly new demands will strain balance sheets and depress innovation.
Recommended Citation
The New American Privacy, Int’l L. Comm. Newsl. (ABA, Chicago, Ill.), Winter 2014, at 1.
Comments
Originally published in the ABA’s International Law Committee Newsletter in the Winter of 2014.