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30 September 2015

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- End of roaming charges: Council confirms agreement with EP (Council of the European Union, link)

- GUE/NGL MEP denounces TiSA at the WTO in Geneva (link): "German GUE/NGL MEP Helmut Scholz, who is attending a World Trade Organization Conference on TiSA (Trade in Services Agreement) in Geneva today, denounces many aspects of this agreement. Helmut Scholz (GUE/NGL coordinator on the International Trade Committee: "Many people are very concerned about the TTIP negotiations between the EU Commission and the U.S. Government. But fewer people are aware that there are parallel negotiations going on that address a number of the same issues as in the TTIP. Full liberalisation of all services is on the agenda in Geneva, Tokyo, Brasilia, Beijing and many more capitals where trade negotiators meet. In fact, for the EU Commission the exact same team is negotiating TiSA and the services aspects of TTIP."

- Safe Harbor – No Future? How the General Data Protection Regulation and the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will influence transatlantic data transfers (EASFJ, link)

- Don't look now, but there's another EU data protection court case about to bite - ECJ to decide on which privacy watchdog can fine whom (The Register, link): "The Weltimmo case involves a tricky legal question on jurisdiction for data protection issues when a company sells in one country, but is headquartered in another."

- Hungarian startup offers encryption with no backdoor key (Politico, link)

- Human rights are no longer a 'top priority' for the Government, says Foreign Office chief - Top official says 'prosperity agenda' now takes precedence over fighting injustice (Independent, link)

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