International Telecom

摘要

Privacy protection is "mission critical" at the FTC, Commissioner Julie Brill told the Mentor GroupnForum for EU-US Legal-Economic Affairs in Brussels, according to a copy of her remarksn(http://1.usa.gov/YQKEiN). The address played up the common aspects of European and U.S. privacynpolicies. She said a draft EU privacy regulation reflects common ground with the U.S. on many key issuesnsuch as promoting privacy by design, protecting kids' privacy, strengthening data security and givingnconsumers appropriate access correction and deletion rights to their information. "The particular solutionsnwe develop may differ, but the challenges we face and our desire to solve them are the same," she said.nBut cross-border data transfers is an area where U.S. and EU policies diverge, she said. "I know there arenmany who believe the gap between the EU and U.S. privacy regimes is growing," she said. "Although the U.S. may for historic reasons approach privacy through our different legal tradition — one that uses anframework approach, backed up by strong enforcement — I believe this approach achieves many of thensame goals as those embraced by EU data protection authorities."