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EU-USA DATA PROTECTION: Malmstrom rejects accusations of working with US to weaken data laws

29 September 2014

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In early 2011 it became apparent that the EU-US "umbrella" agreement was effectively dead in the water. The USA did not like the proposed Regulation and the EU, especially in parts of the Commission, and the European Parliament, wanted to adopt a new EU Regulation first. This e-mail is from early in the period from between January 2012 and the summer of 2013 when EU-USA formal negotiations took place.

See the article: Malmstrom rejects accusations of working with US to weaken data laws (euobserver, link)

See: Big brother’s little helper inside the European Commission (Access Blog, link) and: email (relased in US). See also: US lobbying against the data protection reform intensifies (EDRI, link) referring to this: Document (pdf)

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