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On Thursday, Congress advanced a bill which would allow European citizens to sue the US government if their data is misused in an international law enforcement investigation. The proposal is one of several cybersecurity bills currently in progress in the US and in Europe.
Known as the Judicial Redress Act, it's intended to address imbalances in how the US and international governments share data in criminal investigations, including terrorism cases. It's part of a larger "umbrella agreement" between the US and the European Union to further define how the two sides share information. Currently, US citizens can sue in European courts over the misuse of their data, but the US does not have similar protections.
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"If we fail to pass the Judicial Redress Act, we will undermine several important international agreements, harm our businesses operating in Europe and severely limit the sharing of law enforcement information," Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R) of Wisconsin, who introduced the bill in March, said during the meeting.
Will Europeans fare better than the American citizens who already sued the US government for total surveillance?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday September 22 2015, @03:07AM
Ignoring, for the moment, the internal inconsistency in your statement, every country reserves for itself the right to spy on foreigners in this country as well as anywhere else in the world. It is the mandate of the CIA to do so.
The US is almost alone with a law on the books keeping the CIA and NSA from spying on US Citizens on US Soil. (A law often ignored as it turns out). Many EU countries had no such prohibition, until one was forced upon them by the EU, a fact that is similarly ignored for the most part by EU members.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.