Jaromir Miko Just days after Tim Cook visited Europe and spoke positively about European Union initiatives to increase personal data protection, the European Commission is preparing another proposal that could weaken the hitherto unassailable position of technology leaders trading in various data including information, whichá they collect about the userích.
According to the as yet unpublished proposal, reported by the Reuters agency, in the caseě approval The European Union created a single data market that would have its own rules and tech companies would be forced to follow them. The regulation would prevent companies like Facebook or Google from abusing ity its dominance in data trading. He would also edito today's rules that prevent effective data sharing and seto would new rules for international useádata and interoperability.
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The proposed space would also be marketplace data for various industriesová industry, such as car manufacturing, healthcare, financial houses, agriculture or energy companies and would also allow companies to better implement solutions to combat climate change. Already in next months could also companiesy get free access to environmental, meteorological and geospatial data, statistics and to another.
With the proposal, the European Union wants to compete with similar solutions that are being prepared or are already being implemented, in China and North America. How the whole design will look in the end can still change. The commission wants to present it on February 19/February to the tech giants and is open to additional modifications and fine-tuning of the proposal before implementation.
Combined with today's European Union data management regulations, this could also mean that when a user accesses a company's website for some reason other member states of the European Union, he would not have to confirm cookies on each of them, but i.eathe data would be uniform for Apple.cz, Apple.de or Apple.fr. There is also the potential to create a mechanism whereby a user could opt out of all data collection by websites they visit that are located in the European Union.
Source: Reuters
