“EPIC has joined a coalition of over sixty NGOs from around the world in a letter to President Juncker of the European Commission, urging him to uphold robust data protection standards. The institutions of the European Union are currently negotiating the new General Data Protection Regulation. The European Commission previously promised that the Data Protection Regulation would be at least as strong as the 1995 Directive it replaces. In 2012, EPIC spoke before the European Parliament on “The Reform of the EU Data Protection Framework-Building Trust in a Digital and Global World.”