EU countries back pro-business data bill

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"EU interior ministers in Luxembourg are backing a "risk-based approach" for data protection standards that would allow greater industry self-regulation.

"Ireland’s justice minister Allan Shatter said on Thursday (6 June) the approach would help small businesses and remove some of the “onerous obligations” by industry outlined in the EU draft data protection regulation.

"The regulation aims to replace a patchwork of national laws based on an 18-year old directive with a single uniform rule."

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