Bloomberg reports on EU plans for negotiations on the data protection regulation to resume, with EU officials agreeing on a roadmap that would see the law adopted before the end of this year. “We cannot afford any more delay,” said German MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht. Meanwhile, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding recently discussed with the BBC how the U.S. National Security Agency’s spying revelations were a “wake-up call.” And outgoing European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx has agreed to stay on the job until October after the European Commission rejected the candidates seeking to replace Hustinx.
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