I was writing yesterday about an interesting hearing taking place in a subcommittee of the US Congress, with the main theme evolving around the “burden” of EU privacy law in the context of developing an US informational privacy law. A group of 80 something consumers had sent a letter to the subcommittee prior to the meeting, asking the participants of the hearing to concentrate on the positive aspects of the EU data protection directive and not see it like a burden.
You can read it HERE.
Now here’s what the media wrote about the hearing:
U.S. firms would be more competitive and better able to comply with foreign privacy laws if the United States had a broad law protecting consumer privacy online, a Commerce Department official told a House panel on Thursday. “It would be helpful and I think it would help the competitiveness of our businesses if we had baseline privacy protections that are flexible and take into account really the changing economy, [and] changing technologies,” Nicole Lamb-Hale of Commerce’s International Trade Administration told the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade.
Read the whole article HERE.
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Consumer Groups Encourage US Congress to Learn from EU Data Protection Directive
EPIC writes today that The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of 85 organizations from America and Europe, sent a letter to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade just before a hearing on the EU’s approach to protecting internet privacy, in which it invites the Congress to learn from the EU data protection directive.
The opinion of the 85 organizations is harsh, to say the least, towards US privacy legal framework.
“Given the widespread agreement across consumer protection in both Europe and the United States that the United States lacks adequate privacy safeguards and that the US privacy laws lag woefully behind current technology and business practices, we expected a hearing that would focus on the lessons that the Congress might draw from the EU experience with data protection.”
You can find the whole letter HERE.
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade has scheduled a hearing on September 15, 2011. The hearing is entitled “Internet Privacy: The Impact and Burden of EU Regulation.” It seems that the signatory groups are concerned about the “Burden” part of the hearing’s theme.
You can find the background of the hearing HERE.
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