EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourová is calling for “results by the end of next month in talks to revamp” the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor program, BloombergBusiness reports. The EU wants the U.S. “to agree on permanent and regular controls” for Safe Harbor-certified companies, the report states, noting that the “negotiations must also come up with liability rules for when data is transferred to third parties and curbs on state access to the information,” Jourová said. “We want a clear agreement on a limited and clearly defined number of exceptions for law enforcement and security agencies … on rules of proportionality of their data use. This must be guaranteed in writing by the U.S. side.”
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