Why Google could start a trade war over Europe's privacy rules Timothy J. Toohey, Special for USA TODAY It is not often that a law governing privacy of personal information stimulates international controversy, but that is what has happened with the European Union's proposed data protection law. The regulation, which was announced with fanfare in January 2012, would further increase the already strict restrictions on the collection and use of personal data in the E.U. through a uniform law applying to all twenty-seven EU member states. continua qui: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/03/22/europe-privacy-laws-google-fac... -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero http://it.linkedin.com/pub/alessandro-mantelero/29/723/a48 https://twitter.com/mantelero Department of Management and Production Engineering Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo