13.06.2013 - 06:35 [ boing boing ]

Proposed EU Data Protection amendment would open the door for secret funneling of Europeans‘ data to the NSA

Here‘s an important consideration for Europeans in light of the NSA dragnet surveillance revealed by the recent leaks: some of the amendments to the controversial new EU Data Protection Regulation would open the door to the secret transfer of EU citizens‘ private information to US intelligence agencies.