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Top Commerce Lawyer Kerry Warns EU Against Unraveling 'Safe Harbor'

August 28, 2013 at 9:35 PM
The top U.S. Commerce Department lawyer today (Aug. 28) warned the European Commission against taking steps to choke off the trans-Atlantic flow of data in reaction to disclosures about American surveillance activities, in the first public pushback from a senior Obama administration official to EU outrage over the PRISM scandal. Cameron Kerry, general counsel at Commerce, specifically stressed the importance of the U.S-EU “Safe Harbor” framework that allows companies with operations in the EU to transfer data back to U.S...

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