The European Union's (EU) privacy rules must be brought up to date with changes in technology, information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding said in a speech last Thursday. She mentioned specifically the growing use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in everyday products, the growth of social-networking websites, new types of internet-based advertising and airport security technologies such as full-body scanners.
New rules are needed not just to protect EU citizens' right to privacy, but to provide legal certainty for industry and to ensure consumers take up new technologies, the Commission said.
Read more of "European privacy laws to be reformed" at ZDNet UK.