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EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: EU data watchdog to investigate Prism scandal

20 August 2013

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"EU data regulators will carry out their own investigation into whether privacy rules have been breached by secret US surveillance programmes, according to the bloc's privacy experts. In a letter published on Monday (19 August) to EU Justice commissioner Viviane Reding, Jacob Kohnstamm, Chairman of the Article 29 working party, said that his group would assess the controversial PRISM programme as well as other platforms used by the US National Security Agency (NSA)."

See the full text: EU data watchdog to investigate Prism scandal (euobserver, link)

And see: Article 20 Working Party Letter to Commissioner Reding concerning XKeyscore and Prism (pdf)

See also: Statewatch Observatory: EU-USA Data Surveillance

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