EU PREPARES CRACKDOWN ON US DATA SURVEILLANCE…
New European rules aimed at curbing questionable transfers of data from EU countries to the US are being finalised in Brussels in the first concrete reaction to the Edward Snowden disclosures on US and British mass surveillance of digital communications.
Regulations on European data protection standards are expected to pass the European parliament committee stage on Monday after the various political groupings agreed on a new compromise draft following two years of gridlock on the issue.
How cool is that, Europe takes the lead … Where the US COnstitution dares not walk.
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