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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8665

13 March 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 36
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/data protection
Parliament unhappy with outcome of negotiations with the United States

Strasbourg, 12/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - What is the point of privacy rules if even the EU doesn't respect them? asked Italian Radical MEP Marco Cappato in Strasbourg on Tuesday during the vote on the report on the implementation of the 1995 data protection directive. He added that the EU and the US have agreed for computers for transatlantic flights to be accessible to US authorities without authorisation or rules and that while some accuse the US, this is in fact a European problem.

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