More EU brilliance we might avoid if we left......
Thought this would make you laugh. I've been doing some digging to check what we can do with some data we collected when we made a live-stream broadcast of an awards event on Friday, through an American software company. Their Ts and Cs state that they comply with the EU Data Protection Directive, including its Safe Harbour Principles. When I looked these up, according to Wiki, they were overturned in October last year by the European Court of Justice. "What has replaced them?" I hear your cry....Well, the EU-US Privacy Shield of course. The thing is, that hasn't been signed off yet cos the committee are still wrangling over the terms. So unless I have missed something (entirely possible), it looks as if us EU'ers have no protection whatsoever in respect to use of our data by American firms........
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Nick I think if you look a bit further you will find that it is the EU, or more correctly a number of EU countries, who are now fighting hard to win this battle for data protection. In the past a deal was done, with the backing of the UK, which a number of organisations in Germany, Austria and some other countries are now trying hard to get undone. Germany has been one of the most outspoken countries against US companies exploiting personal data. The EU sometimes does things that the UK wants and still ends up getting bad press for it. Anyway here's a link which can help with more info on what's going on..
http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html
