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EU Data Protection Chief: Beware the ACTA

John Paczkowski in News on February 22, 2010 at 10:59 am PT

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated behind a veil of secrecy by the United States, European Union, Japan and a host of other countries is a potentially onerous one. That’s the gist of a 20-page memo issued today by Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, who is clearly appalled by what he read in the portion of the draft of the agreement leaked to the Web last week.