EU: Progress on personal data

John Mogg, Director-General of DGXV of the EC, has met with David Aaron, US under-secretary for international trade at the Department of Commerce to discuss the EU directive on the protection of personal data. The US has now accepted that an independent body should regulate disputes, but differences still remain. The EU directive empowers EU national data regulators to halt certain exports of personal data, while the US has a system of voluntary self-regulation.