roundtable: Re: Data protection laws spark U.S. and E.U. tussle, from FT (fwd)

roundtable: Re: Data protection laws spark U.S. and E.U. tussle, from FT (fwd)

Re: Data protection laws spark U.S. and E.U. tussle, from FT (fwd)

James Packard Love (love@cptech.org)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:25:24 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:25:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Packard Love <love@cptech.org>
To: roundtable <roundtable@cni.org>
Subject: Re: Data protection laws spark U.S. and E.U. tussle, from FT (fwd)
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970710172510.17492B-100000@essential.essential.org>


Forwarded by:
James Love
<love@cptech.org>


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:10:14 -0400
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Data protection laws spark U.S. and E.U. tussle, from FT

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>A recently adopted EU directive on data protection makes it illegal after
>October 1998 for EU businesses to "export" personal data for commercial
>purposes to countries which lack comparable privacy laws.
>Such a ban could prevent the sale of customer information, or even
>exchanges of marketing databases between subsidiaries of international
>companies.
>The clause has already been cited by financial services groups as a
>potential barrier to trade.

That's why we slipped GATT and the WTO past those dumb Europeans.  Their 
Privacy Protection regime goes out the window as soon as the WTO has a case 
before it.

Notice the U.S. won two big ones recently.  Canada can't block U.S. magazines 
on cultural protection grounds (goodby European TV) and Europe has to let 
U.S. hormone-tainted beef in.

And Pat Buchanan worried that *our* sovereignty would be hurt by GATT.  Open 
systems can't be hurt by openness.  Poor Europe.  "Mauke", as we say in 
Hawaiian.

DCF


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