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European Parliament: MEPs tighten up rules to protect personal data in the digital era

12 March 2014

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"MEPs inserted stronger safeguards for EU citizens’ personal data that gets transferred to non-EU countries in a major overhaul of the EU’s data protection laws voted on Wednesday. The new rules aim both to give people more control over their personal data and to make it easier for firms to work across borders, by ensuring that the same rules apply in all EU member states."

""I have a clear message to the Council: any further postponement would be irresponsible. The citizens of Europe expect us to delivera strong EU wide data protection regulation. If there are some member states which do not want to deliver after two years of negotiations, the majority should go ahead without them", explained rapporteur for the general data protection regulation, Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens/EFA, DE)."

See the full text: MEPs tighten up rules to protect personal data in the digital era
(Press release, pdf), approved by 621 votes to 10, with 22 abstentions.

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