The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs voted Monday for a major overhaul of current EU data protection rules. The committee adopted “en bloc” a package of compromise amendments assembled by Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht, rapporteur for the proposed regulation, which represented only a fraction of the 3,000 amendments initially proposed to the committee earlier this year. Meanwhile, French newspaper Le Monde has reported on NSA internal memos detailing “the wholesale use of cookies by the NSA to spy on French diplomatic interests at the UN and in Washington.”
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