Saying they’ve grown increasingly impatient with online companies that pay too little heed to national privacy laws and expectations, data protection commissioners from 10 countries on Tuesday launched what they promised would be an ongoing effort to match worldwide enforcement with the growing global market in social network information. “We’ve seen this happening a couple of times now and we want to say, ‘No, this can’t go on the way it has,” said Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s privacy commissioner.
Where's the United States? I'm surprised Switzerland wasn't part of the group.
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10 Nations Demand Online Privacy - Or Else
Posted by: Mike Pearson April 20, 2010 02:52 PMSaying they’ve grown increasingly impatient with online companies that pay too little heed to national privacy laws and expectations, data protection commissioners from 10 countries on Tuesday launched what they promised would be an ongoing effort to match worldwide enforcement with the growing global market in social network information. “We’ve seen this happening a couple of times now and we want to say, ‘No, this can’t go on the way it has,” said Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s privacy commissioner.