EU trying to salvage US deal on data privacy

The EU's commissioner for justice, Vera Jourova, is in Washington DC to prevent privacy safeguards for European citizens from unravelling.

European privacy in personal data sent to the United States is supposed to be maintained under the EU-US Privacy Shield accord, which was launched last summer.

"The commitments the US has taken must be respected, she [Jourova] has been very clear already on this and also publicly," said Paul ...