(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) The European Union needs to work towards creating a regional communication network that circumvents the United States
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday
As a part of her weekly podcast, Merkel said she will talk to Frenc
President Francois Hollande during an upcoming visit to Paris abou
building a European communication network so that citizens' email
and other data does not pass through US servers
The EU is currently working towards setting out a collectiv
framework for data protection, an initiative that is provin
difficult due to the widely diverging privacy standards in its 2
member states
'Many countries have lower levels of data protection than Germany
and we do not want our privacy laws to be watered down,' said Merkel
adding that companies like Google and Facebook would base thei
operations in countries with the lowest safeguards
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