EU Fails to Speed Up Privacy Rule in Spite of Merkel Spy Tension
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European Union leaders dropped a 2014 deadline to complete an overhaul of the bloc’s data privacy laws even as they condemned allegations that the U.S. eavesdropped on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Leaders called for a strengthened data-protection law to be introduced in a “timely” fashion. A draft version of their summit statement had language seeking its adoption next year. A U.K.-led group urged a slowdown to consider the effect of the legislation on businesses.