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Data Directive provides a very good starting point".
In its letter to U.S. Representative Mary Bono Mack, the chairwoman of the subcommittee, the coalition wrote that it was "somewhat surprised by what appears to be an effort to call into question the purpose and 'burden' of the E.U. data directive".
That unpleasant experience of going public is one that European firms are going to become much more acquainted with thanks to an imminent European data directive.
Back in 2011 when it proposed to revise the public data directive, the EC projected that its Open Data Strategy will end up injecting €40 billion annually to the EU's economy, driving growth and jobs.
The decision was a re-affirmation of political will; it bolstered the European personal data directive passed three years before Google's launch.
The last time the Internet enjoyed so much political attention was in 1995 -- the year the EU passed the personal data directive -- when Al Gore recognized the value of controlling the Internet root zone.
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Some privacy advocates seem determined to move the U.S. in the direction the European Union has charted with its "data directives" and more stringent privacy controls.
It argued that – as a company operating from the US – European data directives did not apply to its search engines and that these did not process or control personal data.
The EU has certainly done a lot in this direction: the European Commission proposals for the data protection directive reform, the directive on Network and Information Security and the European Cloud Computing Strategy are only three recent examples of what we are doing on this issue.
In 2006, the EU issued the controversial Data Retention Directive, more formally known as Directive 2006/24/EC.
The data protection Directive is complemented by the Directive for data protection and privacy in the telecommunications sector.
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