Those laws, known as the E-Privacy Directive, currently require telco networks in the EU to make a swift, mandatory disclosure about a data breach.

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The UK is pushing businesses to be ready for this, reports BBC News, as a new EU privacy directive is supposed to be going into effect come May 25.

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EU's privacy directive also authorises member states to cut off the data flow to other countries, including the United States, which do not have (by its lights) adequate privacy laws.

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