The EU and the U.S. are close to completing negotiations on a deal protecting personal data shared for law enforcement purposes such as terrorism investigations, Reuters reports. The negotiations hit a point of contention because of a lack of legal redress for EU citizens in U.S. courts in cases where data may have been misused, while U.S. citizens have that right in the EU. But the Judicial Redress Act, introduced in the U.S. in March and aiming to giving citizens of U.S. allies the right to sue over data privacy in the U.S., has pushed things in the right direction, the report states.
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