In a meeting of justice ministers from the 27 European Union member states yesterday, The New York Times reports that an agreement was reached on a “business-friendly proposal” for the contentious EU data protection regulation that would take a risk-based approach to regulating companies that gather data. However, there remains a long row to hoe, and some MEPs are now predicting there will be no vote on the regulation until December at the earliest. Editor’s Note: Somini Sengupta will be a moderator at the IAPP’s Navigate event, on June 21 in Portsmouth, NH.
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