As the three-month deadline for Europe and the U.S. to agree a new transatlantic data transfer deal looms, EC officials are briefing that the U.S. needs to do more to improve transparency around its government mass surveillance programs in order to secure an agreement.
The prior fifteen-year-old Safe Harbor executive decision was struck down by the European Court of Justice last October on data protection grounds, invalidating data transfers legalized under the old regime and leaving businesses scrambling to comply with the various alternative mechanisms left to them to govern data-sharing activity between Europe and the U.S.
