EU's new data protection rules will "kill cloud computing" in Europe, warn Amazon, Cisco, IBM and SAP

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EU Data Protection Regulations to be agreed in Luxembourg today - with an ominous warning from the biggest companies in IT

New European Union Data Protection Regulations expected to be finalised today will kill the trading bloc's cloud computing industry and push internet companies out of the continent. That is the ...

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