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Safe Harbor crunch time: Today's the day to hammer out privacy deal

So... maybe tomorrow we'll know what happened?

         

tangor

7:40 am on Feb 2, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Despite furious efforts over three months and, for the past few weeks, daily meetings between officials, the two sides are still reportedly at loggerheads over two issues:

--A clear explanation over what access US security services have to data sent from Europe.
--How European citizens can sue if they believe their data has been mishandled.

[theregister.co.uk...]

hemantwps

10:24 am on Feb 11, 2016 (gmt 0)



US and EC (European Commission) officials have until the end of the day today to reach a new Safe Harbor agreement or risk a breakdown of transatlantic e-commerce.