Privacy laws, for example, are currently being revised on both sides of the Atlantic. European Union officials have called for stronger protection of personal data on the Internet, and want this to apply to any company doing business in Europe — regardless of where its servers are based. U.S. Internet companies fear that stricter standards could harm their business.

“In spite of a harmless sounding rhetoric, the E-G8 Forum is a smokescreen to cover control of governments over the Internet,” wrote Jérémie Zimmermann, a spokesman for La Quadrature du Net

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