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Europe Urged To Halt Data Agreement With U.S.

  • Gigaom, Wednesday, December 18, 2013 2:56 PM

Europe should suspend the Safe Harbor agreement with the U.S. that allows American cloud firms to handle the data of EU citizens, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee has said in a set of draft recommendations. The committee has for months been hearing evidence about surveillance of Europeans by the NSA and EU countries’ own governments. The inquiry is now on a holiday break, but on Wednesday Claude Moraes – the MEP leading the committee – presented draft conclusions that, if all goes well, will be up for a parliamentary vote in late February.

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