The EU's Data Protection Directive was enacted in 1995, well before the advent of social networking sites, the ubiquitous tracking of web users and widespread use of geo-location devices, the huge growth of the "surveillance state," "cloud computing," and the explosion of cross-border transfers of electronic data.
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RegisterEuropean Commission releases strategy for revising Data Protection Directive
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European Union
November 13 2010
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