| Washington pushed EU to dilute data protection | The Obama administration successfully lobbied the European Commission to strip its data-privacy legislation of a measure that would have limited the ability of US intelligence agencies to spy on EU citizens, according to three senior EU officials.
The measure – which was known within the EU as the "anti-Fisa clause", after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorises the US government to eavesdrop on international phone calls and emails – would have nullified any US request for technology and telecoms companies to hand over data on EU citizens, according to documents obtained by the Financial Times.
http://link.ft.com/r/XYEWFF/NR0ROI/HDBRE3/972M6T/20JBLS/PJ/h?a1=2013&a2=6&a3=12
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