US WILL BE LIMITED spying on citizens of the EU

This month, a new agreement on the exchange of information will be agreed upon, according to which the United States will have restrictions on the use of information about the European citizens, which is collected in large quantities. A clear explanation of what information can be used - in order to prevent its use of "uncontrolled" and "arbitrary" - was the key to new configurations Privacy Shield agreement, which will allow companies to easily transfer personal data to the United States.


Privacy has become a sore point between the EU and the United States after the revelations of Edward Snowden, a former technician CIA and the National Security Agency US (NSA) in 2013 on the practice of mass surveillance of the US government. As a result, the Supreme Court of Justice of the EU has introduced in the past year, the document Privacy Shield, the first configuration which put thousands of companies in a state of legal uncertainty. For the deal, Washington has decided to create a new unit at the State Department to deal with complaints and requests to the EU data protection agencies. dispute settlement mechanism will also be developed and joint complaints and the annual review of the agreement.