The Americans have lower consumer standards than Europe on pretty much everything, from chemical safety to data protection.
As software increasingly flies our planes and drives our cars and runs our economy, digital security enables physical safety and data protection at a minimum, but it also provides the impetus for better lives and global growth.
Facebook frequently falling back on pointing to its massive size as the justification for why it keeps failing on so many types of issues — be it consumer safety or indeed data protection compliance — may even have interesting competition-related implications, as some have suggested.
For patient safety, quality and data protection the authoritative version of the record (i.e original EEG recording and subsequent annotations) was stored centrally at SGH.
He cautioned, though, that the EU's executive is not willing to sacrifice Europeans' "safety, health, social and data protection standards or our cultural diversity" to reach an agreement with the United States.
Juncker, seeing the way the public debate was going, promised in his manifesto that "I will not sacrifice Europe's safety, health, social and data protection standards … on the altar of free trade … Nor will I accept that the jurisdiction of courts in the EU member states is limited by special regimes for investor disputes".
a trade deal with the United States which does not "sacrifice Europe's safety, health, social and data protection standards".
"I will also be very clear that I will not sacrifice Europe's safety, health, social and data protection standards on the altar of free trade," he said.
In such a sensitive area, issues of confidentiality, data protection and safety for volunteers and the public will be crucial – and tricky.
It is tempting to say that freedom of expression trumps all other values and interests, but the evidence is right before us that freedom of expression is being eroded by copyright, liability, privacy and data protection, public safety and other concerns.
