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EU-USA: NSA's surveillance a 'trade barrier' for EU companies

09 December 2014

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"The US National Security Agency's mass surveillance is a trade barrier for European Internet companies trying to provide services in the United States, a top EU official said yesterday (8 December). US citizens are deterred from using European email providers because they do not get the same protection as they would by using US providers, said Paul Nemitz, a director in the European Commission's justice department.

"The law [...] which empowers the NSA to basically grab everything which comes from outside the United States, is a real trade barrier to a European digital company to provide services to Americans inside America," Nemitz, who is overseeing an overhaul of the EU's 20-year-old data protection rules, said at a conference on data protection in Paris."

See the article: NSA's surveillance a 'trade barrier' for EU companies (euractiv, link)

And see: France Wants EU Data Privacy Rules to ‘Balance’ U.S. Web Giants’ Power (Digits, link)

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