The Europe Union passed a "cookie law" (Privacy and Communications Directive) in 2009, and from last month, sites were supposed to get your permission to install cookies.

欧盟在2009年通过了一项“信息记录程序法”(“ cookie law ”)【隐私及通讯指令(Privacy and Communications Directive)】。从上个月起，网站方被要求需经过用户许可才能安装信息记录程序。

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Separate plans to update the EU's 20-year-old data-protection directive will further widen the privacy gap between Europe and America.

针对更新欧盟已有20年的数据保护指令所做的充分计划将远远加大欧盟和美国的隐私差距。

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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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