The U.S. and the European Union continue to seek common ground on cyberspace policies during a period of domestic debates over balancing privacy, encryption, free speech, law enforcement and innovation.
In recent years, the U.S. and the EU have struggled to reconcile differences that were exacerbated by the revelation in 2013 that the National Security Agency had been spying on EU leaders and officials.
“The NSA disclosures created both challenge and opportunity,” said R. David Edelman, special assistant to the President for Economic and Technology Policy at the White House’s National Economic Council. “The most visible context in which both played out is in the transatlantic context.”
