The development of online privacy protections is at a critical moment as policy makers push for changes to their privacy rules. The U.S. and the E.U. have very different approaches to privacy enforcement, privacy experts say. The European Commission director of fundamental rights and citizenship at the European Commission says privacy is a basic right. The FTC takes Nemitz’s comment about public relations as a “compliment” as a compliment, an FTC official says. Some participants in the conference questioned whether E.u. privacy agencies are effective against big companies such as Facebook and Google.”]