Ahead of a European Council meeting on proposed cybersecurity rules, France, Germany and Spain are hijacking the debate in hopes of using the rules to “boost control and surveillance over Internet companies, claiming they are critical to their economies and communication networks,” Politico reports. The proposal requests that Internet firms offer “greater transparency” to the EU and that firms outside the EU “report security breaches to national regulators in each member state,” similar to the burden placed on European telecom companies. “Nevertheless,” the report states, “the proposed rules will likely add to the long list of disputes pitting European authorities against U.S. tech firms.”
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