EU parliament overhauls Internet data protection rules

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STRASBOURG, France: The European Parliament adopted for the first time a single set of rules for the 28-nation EU to protect the privacy of people using the Internet. 

The reform replaces a patchwork of rules introduced two decades ago at the dawn of the Internet age and boosts efforts by the European Commission, the EU executive, to build a single digital market for 500 million people.