A May 25 exclusive for The Privacy Advisor reported how a hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism was concerned that privacy laws, in particular, the GDPR, would make preventing crime difficult for law enforcement. Four days later, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee tackled the same issue, and tensions rose at the “High-Level Expert Group on Information Systems and Interoperability,” as MEPs accused EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove of failing to understand the principles of data protection law. Jennifer Baker was at the hearing and has the details in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor. 
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