Former UK Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is calling for a modernised European framework for data protection, ComputerWeekly reports. Thomas, now of Hunton & Williams, responded to a European Commission consultation on a comprehensive approach to personal data protection by stating he is pleased a review is underway, "But there is still a long way to go to draft balanced laws that will work in practice when so much personal information can flow so easily around cyberspace with no regard to national boundaries." Hunton & Williams' Centre for Information Policy Leadership has also made other recommendations, including that "EU standard-form privacy information notices must not be so comprehensive or so simple as to be meaningless," the report states.
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