Lawmakers in Brussels are set to officially warn Washington that Safe Harbor may be at risk unless U.S. tech businesses change the way they handle the data collected on EU citizens, Financial Times reports. The European Commission (EC) has been reviewing the Safe Harbor pact and is slated to announce its conclusions on Wednesday. According to the report, the EU is not expected to scrap the deal, but its wording suggests the EU will move in that direction if changes are not made by U.S. businesses. “The personal data of EU citizens sent to the U.S. under the ‘Safe Harbor’ may be accessed and further processed by U.S. authorities in a way incompatible with the ground on which the data was originally collected,” the draft version of the EC report states. “The commission has the authority … to suspend or revoke the Safe Harbor decision if the scheme no longer provides an adequate level of protection.”
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