<span style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;line-height:18.484375px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The European Union is seeking to increase the private sphere of its citizens by strengthening data protection laws for the web. Large Internet firms and lobbyists are fighting the plans. Here's an overview of the debate in Brussels</span><br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div><b>Spiegel (in English</b>) <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-european-union-closes-in-on-data-privacy-legislation-a-877973.html">http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-european-union-closes-in-on-data-privacy-legislation-a-877973.html</a> <br>
<br><b>Data Protection Regulation</b> is here (PDF) <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/review2012/com_2012_11_en.pdf ">http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/review2012/com_2012_11_en.pdf </a><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;text-align:left;line-height:130%">
</div></div><div><br></div><div>....and very interesting stuff is here <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/index_en.htm">http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/index_en.htm</a> </div><div><br></div><div>
Jelena Jovanović</div>