Day: September 30, 2013

Readers know that I have always said that the Data Protection Regulation will fail, mainly because of disagreements between Member States over content. However, my analysis was before the Snowdon whistle-blowing disclosures as to how personal data, processed by corporate American (e.g. Google, Facebook etc), are regularly harvested by the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA). I still think the Regulation will fail but I am now less certain; in the run up to Xmas, the position will become clear. But