Will Europe's Online Privacy Laws Jump the Pond to the U.S.?

What happens in Europe, stays in Europe? Maybe not when it comes to online privacy regulations for your favorite social networks.

What happens in Europe, stays in Europe? Maybe not when it comes to online privacy regulations for your favorite social networks.

Social media sites like Facebook and Google that are based in the United States but have a presence in Europe must comply with stricter online privacy and data-protection rules being planned for the European Union, the region’s justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, has announced.

Declaring that all companies targeting European consumers “must comply with EU rules,” Commissioner Reding said, more specifically, that, “Privacy standards for European citizens should apply independently of the area of the world in which their data is being processed.”

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