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The EU and US have been in talks on getting a data protection umbrella agreement since March 2011 (Photo: chiara marra)

US to extend privacy rights to EU citizens

The US plans to extend the same rights as Americans have to EU citizens whose data has been breached or misused in the US.

The news was announced at an EU meeting of home affairs ministers in Athenson Wednesday (25 June) by US attorney general Erik Holder.

“EU citizens would have the same right to seek judicial redress for intentional or willful disclosures of protected information,” he told reporters at a press conference, referring to US citizens' privileges under the so-calle...

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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.

The EU and US have been in talks on getting a data protection umbrella agreement since March 2011 (Photo: chiara marra)

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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.

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