<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><h1 class="h s-1">European data protection law proposals revealed</h1><p class="meta s-10">By <a rel="author" href="http://www.zdnet.com/search?q=zack+whittaker">Zack Whittaker</a> | December 7, 2011, 4:02pm PST</p><p class="space-2 content fancy s-7"><span class="c-1 heavy">Summary: </span>An updated draft of Europes upcoming data protection laws, set to be unveiled in January, can be revealed for the first time.</p>
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<article><p>Draft legislation, which will pave the way for the new European Data Protection Directive, is set to be announced in January.</p><p>After two years of <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/summary-zdnets-usa-patriot-act-series/9233">researching the reach and breadth of the USA PATRIOT Act</a>,
particularly how the U.S. government can access European data, the
draft legislation will include measures to counteract how U.S. law
enforcement acquires data from Europe covertly.</p><p>Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, told ZDNet nearly six months ago <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225">that no company could guarantee</a> that European data will not leave Europe under any circumstances, even under a request by the Patriot Act.</p><p>Frazers admission validated over a <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/summary-zdnets-usa-patriot-act-series/9233">years worth of research</a>.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/eu-demands-answers-over-microsofts-patriot-act-admission/11290">European Parliament was furious</a>
at Frazers admission. This outrage led to members of the European
Parliament (MEPs) to ask questions of the European Commission, Europes
executive body, in a concerned bid to clarify the current data
protection laws.</p><p>Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission for
Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, announced last month that
the Commission <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/updated-european-law-will-close-patriot-act-data-access-loophole/742">would seek to update the data protection laws</a>. Little detail was given besides a proposed date, where the law would be unveiled in January 2012.</p><p>In an exclusive, ZDNet can now reveal that the current European Data Protection Directive (<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/usa-patriot-act-the-myth-of-a-secure-european-cloud/8807">95/46/EC</a>) will be <strong>repealed</strong><strong>, </strong>and the draft legislation once ratified will replace current data protection laws across the 27 member states.</p></article></div></div><div><br></div><div>Read full article at <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/european-data-protection-law-proposals-revealed/1365">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/european-data-protection-law-proposals-revealed/1365</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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