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EU Ruling on Personal Data

New data protection laws could see firms fined around 4% of global revenues, if breached.

New data protection laws could see firms fined around 4% of global revenues, if breached. Businesses will have to ask permission to keep clients data and customers will also have the right to demand their details are removed from a company's database at any time. Bernard Marr, chief executive for the Advanced Performance Institute tells us it will simplify the legal situation for companies operating across multiple countries. Controversial proposals have been unveiled for a new European border force. We ask Apostolis Fortiades, a journalist with Greece's Kathimerini newspaper, for his thoughts. Also in the programme, US central bank the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates tomorrow, for the first time in almost a decade. Our economic commentator Roger Bootle offers his assessment. The World Trade Organisation is meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Catherine Byaruhanga is there for us. And as Tim Peake, Britain's first taxpayer-funded astronaut blasts off to the International Space Station, we talk to Nick Spall, fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, about how a drive for innovation is fuelling the modern space mission.

(Picture: A data centre in Paris. Credit: Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images)

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