Amid outrage across Europe at the vast scale of the US surveillance operations, the US attorney general added that both sides of the Atlantic were engaged in policies aimed at "how to remain vigilant protecting civil liberties".
Under EU data protection rules tabled 18 months ago but not yet agreed among EU governments, crucial passages have been dropped under strong EU pressure making it easier for the Americans to access data on people in Europe.
Reding's spokeswoman said on Thursday that when drafting the rules, the European commission had been faced with "intense US lobbying". A contentious passage in the original draft set stiff conditions for the transfer of data to third countries. This part was dropped.
The new rules are supposed to be agreed by the end of the year. But it is likely that they will now have to be reviewed because of the Snowden leaks and the global impact.
The rest of the article is pretty much a whitewash with what we know the NSA is up to
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