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Digital rights campaigners say member states are undermining basic standards in the EU's data protection bill (Photo: nitot)

National governments punch holes in EU data protection bill

National governments are unraveling a EU data protection bill for the benefit of big business, according to leaked documents published by pro-privacy campaigners.

Digital rights advocate Joe McNamee at the Brussels-based EDRi on Tuesday (3 March) said the regulation is now at risk of becoming “an empty shell”.

He said member states are “undermining the meaning of every article, every paragraph, almost every single comma and full stop in the original proposal.”

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Digital rights campaigners say member states are undermining basic standards in the EU's data protection bill (Photo: nitot)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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