Data protection EU data protection: bumpy piece of road ahead Monika Ermert, Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, VDI-Nachrichten PUBLISHED ON: 24 Oct 2013 The European Civil Liberties Committee LIBE is pushing the EU data protection regulation draft forward. Yet, many compromises are made along the way, leaving Europeans wondering who will be the good, the bad and the ugly in the data protection saga.