The European Commission’s proposed legislation on data protection will cost companies millions of pounds to implement, according to the UK Confederation of British Industry: according to Reuter, the employers’ club reckons that the 1984 Data Protection Act already provides adequate protection and that the Commission’s proposals for even greater levels of protection are unnecessary; it reckons that the proposals for high levels of protection are not necessary for the European Single Market and might actually impede the flow of information across Community borders; the Commission seems somewhat schizophrenic on privacy judging by the burden of the item given below.
