By Foo Yun Chee
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A proposed data transfer pact with the United States to replace two previous agreements struck down by Europe’s top court does not contain sufficient safeguards to protect Europeans’ data, a key committee of EU lawmakers said on Thursday.
The comments from the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee came two months after the European Union data protection watchdog EDPB expressed concerns about the draft data transfer deal.
The worries contrasted with the European Commission, which in a draft decision in December said that U.S. safeguards against American intelligence activities were strong enough to address EU data privacy concerns.
“We are not convinced that this new framework sufficiently protects personal data of our citizens, and therefore we doubt it will survive the test of the CJEU (EU Court of Justice),” committee member Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar said in a…
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