Stalled US-EU privacy negotiations set new March deadline

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The negotiation between the US and the EU on the privacy issue has failed, with the two sides setting a new deadline for Mar 2000. The negotiators said that they were close to agreeing on outstanding issues particularly those the involve enforcement mechanisms against companies that violate the safe harbor provisions. The data protection directive went into effect within the EU on Oct 24, 1998.

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Powerful global start-up to support cross-border marketers

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A start-up company, called ezy.buy.com, has been established by a group of five former postal and direct marketing executives to help online retailers and direct marketing firms penetrate any market around the world. The services offered by ezy.buy.com will allow merchants to concentrate on their products and services and not on ways for entering markets and delivering goods.

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EU agrees to self-regulation principles, but doubts remain

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European Union (EU) negotiators have agreed to let the concept of self- regulation act as a sufficient protection for private data sent from Europe to the US. While the agreement has raised the hopes of US negotiators that they can end a long-running privacy disagreement in the next US-EU summit scheduled for Dec 17, 1999, European Commission (EC) officials are reportedly less optimistic. Sources say EC officials want to see how self-regulation would be implemented.

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