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21 February 2011
Eirini Zafeiratou, Vodafone Head of EU Affairs Group Public Policy, provided the commercial and business perspective at a European Policy Centre event in February, Commercial data privacy - how can we protect our data? Her co-panelists included David Vladeck from the US Federal Trade Commision, Lawrence Strickling from the US Department of Commerce, and Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor.
Zafeiratou pointed to the global nature of electronic services to ask for regulatory structures in the US and EU that do not create artificial barriers and disincentives. She stressed the need for a rethinking of regulatory structures to create a level playing field in EU data protection regulations. More detail on Vodafone's position in this area can be found in our publications on the Future of Privacy, available at vodafone.com/privacy. In these documents, we’ve called for a second-generation framework for European privacy that can help promote global standards, and Vodafone hopes that the EU and US can work together to form a common vision for how that second-generation privacy framework can come to be.
