NGOs decry U.S. lobbying campaign against European Union data protection directive
From: FierceGovernmentIT
More than a dozen consumer and civil liberties groups sent a letter to the Obama administration urging the United States to support Europe’s efforts to update and strengthen privacy legislation while decrying an “unprecedented lobbying campaign” by the U.S. government and industry to limit the protections that the proposed European Union data protection directive would provide.
The Feb. 4 letter (.pdf) to Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of State John Kerry, Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk, and Ambassador for the U.S. Mission to the European Union William Kennard claims that a group of U.S. NGO leaders learned about the “mounting” lobbying campaign from members of the European Parliament and their staff on a recent trip to Brussels.
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