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BYTE.com > Letters to BYTE.com > 2003Letters to BYTE.comBy Readers of Byte.comFebruary 17, 2003(Letters to BYTE.com : Page 1 of 1 )Soft Law and Hard LawDear BYTE.com, Dr Rakesh Agrawal's article, Hippocratic Computing: Protecting Our Privacy [BYTE.com, 1/27/2003] suffers a major flaw in describing the situation of data protection in the European Union (EU). Describing the EU approach to data protection (privacy) as an implementation of OECD guidelines is incorrect. The current heated controversy between the US and the EU is precisely on the point that the US administration supports "soft law," or self-regulation, while the EU has in place "hard law," i.e.: Here they throw the book at those not complying with the rather pervasive statutes on data protection (privacy), in force. An extensive array of relevant information on the subject is available in English from the European Commission at http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/dataprot/index.htm Patrizio Menchetti Contact BYTE.com at http://www.byte.com/feedback/feedback.html.
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