BRUSSELS: A global trade deal to stop copyright theft could give Internet providers the right to spy on users, breaching European Union law, the EU’s data privacy chief said.
Several governments in the developed world have been pushing for multilateral agreements to ban trademark theft on consumer goods and medicines, as have websites such as MegaUploads and PirateBay, which provide free film and music downloads.
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