EU Data Protection Reform To Replace National Laws

[HardOCP News]

So what do you guy think? Is this going to work or not?

The European Union wants to replace a mishmash of national laws on data protection with one bloc-wide reform, updating laws put in place long before Facebook and other social networking sites even existed.

 

[RogueKitsune]

Not sure if it will work or not, but the idea a revising laws that are applied to the internet yet were made before the internet seems like a good idea in my opinion

 

[hopiamani]

I think the bigger question is whether the EU will last:

http://www.economist.com/node/21540255:eek:

Just when things were looking sunnier in the US....

 

[hopiamani]

took out the smiley

http://www.economist.com/node/21540255

 

[r00t61]

The Eurozone monetary union is probably going to fail soon, given the problems in Greece, Germany, France, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain, so having a bunch of unelected bureaucrats try to determine a one-size-fits-all data protection policy for a region as diverse as Europe is nothing more than so much mental masturbation.

 

[westrock2000]

Will it be ran by that Norwegian politician chick that looks cute from afar but looks like George Michael from Wham! days up close? The Pirate Party girl.

 

[Aielman]

I think there won't be a European Union this time next year after Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland default, so this law is a moot point.

 

[Json23]

They wouldn't have those problems in the EU if they did like what Iceland did and the people refused to give the central banks money they didn't owe in the first place. Get out of the derivatives market, kick out the central banks, and go back to money back by something tangible and things would get better overnight. For the EU and the US.

 

[Outamyhead]

Good luck getting ol' Blighty to roll with that nonsense, they never went with the Euro when they were pressured into talks.

 

[Hamish Campbell]

They wouldn't have those problems in the EU if they did like what Iceland did and the people refused to give the central banks money they didn't owe in the first place. Get out of the derivatives market, kick out the central banks, and go back to money back by something tangible and things would get better overnight. For the EU and the US.

What? The Icelandic krona isn't commodity based and they still have a central bank.