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The European Commission, which currently represents EU Member States in negotiations with Washington, perceives that the US approach to data protection has changed fundamentally. The EU hopes that it will be able to negotiate with the Americans similar rules to those it already has with Japan or is preparing with South Korea or the United Kingdom.
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The pandemic highlighted even more clearly the problem Slovakia has with its own data. When asked about data policy, ministries mostly refer to the Ministry of Informatisation. However, it lacks clear competences. The forthcoming data law, which is facing hundreds of comments, could help.
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Data from more than 533 million accounts of social network users, including phone numbers, emails, and marital status, was discovered on the web. One in five of the hacked accounts came from the EU. The most affected users were from Italy, France and Spain. Slovak, Romanian and Latvian accounts are unlikely to be among them.
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EU leaders want to press the Commission to speed up the establishment of nine strategic dataspaces in the Union for nine specific sectors. But European data storage remains problematic. Up to 90 percent of it is "warehoused" across the Atlantic. The bloc is therefore planning billions of euros of investment in European clouds, but also in small data centres close to users.
