Europe Told to Rethink E-Privacy Directive
Privacy advocates in Europe rally the public and ask Europols to reconsider legislation to be debated before the European Parliament on Friday. Before 9-11, Europeans were much more privacy conscious than Americans and had much stricter inforcement of privacy laws regarding access and sale of private/personal information. Many privacy advocates in the U.S. considered the EU privacy laws as a model to be followed in the U.S., where corporate greed often trumps individual privacy rights.