US officials have lobbied EU to give up data protection

According to three senior European Union officials, the Obama administration has succeeded in persuading the European Commission (European Commision) not to include in its data privacy legislation a measure that could have restricted U.S. intelligence agencies ' ability to monitor EU citizens.

The measure, dubbed the "anti-FISA clause" within the EU, is named after the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Foreign FDI Surveillance Act, FISA), which authorizes the US government to monitor international calls and e-mails. Documents obtained by the Financial Times suggest that the measure would have invalidated any U.S. demand for technology and telecoms groups to submit data to EU citizens.

But although Viviane Reding, the European Union's top judicial officer, claimed that the exempted measure could have prevented some kind of monitoring action, which was disclosed to be the prism of the national security Agency. Prism – A defensive measure that was abandoned by European Commission officials in January 2012.

At that time, EU members from most of the 27 EU Member States opposed the measure. They claim that because most of the data servers in the large technology companies that hold the information of EU citizens are in the United States, the legal effect of this measure is negligible and will only provoke discontent among Europe's most important allies.

According to EU officials, Obama administration officials have visited Brussels several times before the EU's veto. These include David Cameron, the brother of the U.S. Department of Commerce's chief lawyer and John Kerry, the US secretary of state, who led a working group on an inter-agency review of EU data-exchange laws.

According to a European Union official involved in the review process, Janet Napolitano, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, personally lobbied officials in Brussels, the EU official said: "White House officials were Janet around." ”

U.S. diplomats said they had no comment on the details of Yu Jian's remarks, but they acknowledged that EU officials had consulted them and welcomed their comments.

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