Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), spoke out today against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), claiming that it could prove unworkable under current European Union data protection laws.

The ACTA is currently being hammered out in South Korea by the EU, US, Japan, Australia and several other countries in an effort to combat copyright infringement and the trade in counterfeit goods.

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