A race for the weakest standards in data protection threatens Europe with the planned international TiSA agreement. This is shown by internal documents from the 20th round of the negotiations which were given to Greenpeace. It states that certain countries' data protection provisions should not constitute "unjustifiable discrimination" and no "trade barriers". Companies like Google or Facebook, whose business is based on the use of personal data, would have much more influence. The risks also threatened sensitive facilities such as nuclear power plants.

In this picture: Volker Gassner, Head of Greenpeace's Press department.