The European Union (EU) is not doing enough to safeguard personal data and privacy rights in trade agreements, a new study warns.
The University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law study calls for such steps as keeping rules on privacy and data protection out of trade agreements; having an exception in trade agreements [such as those in financial services] that any signatories can regulate cross-border data transfers; including clauses in trade agreements that keeps an EU measure from becoming invalid or inapplicable; preventing the EU from becoming vulnerable to potential challenges under trade rules; and having the European Data Protection Supervisor review texts of free trade agreements and issue an opinion.
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