Facebook warns against ‘detailed’ EU data law

Richard Allan, Facebook’s head of public policy of Europe, Middle East and Africa, says in Brussels on Monday 25 March 2013 that the EU draft data protection regulation should remain broad enough to create incentives for business to comply.

The Internet giant says fixing technical details at the regulation’s outset would upset the different requirements and standards used by social networks, pharmaceutical companies or banks.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Data Protection: All You Need to Know about the EU Privacy Debate http://www.europeansources.info/record/data-protection-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu-privacy-debate/

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