The European Commission is casting doubts on a 13-year old data sharing agreement with the United States.
EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding on Friday (19 July) told reporters in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius her services will be reviewing the so-called Safe Harbor Agreement.
“We do have the impression that the Safe Harbor Agreement, might not be so safe, after all,” she said.
The agreement was hammered out in 2000 between the US department of commerce and the European Com...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.