Europeans: NSA disclosures should end privacy deal

Members of the European Parliament are urging the body to suspend a data privacy deal with the US in the wake of disclosures about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance.

News about the controversial snooping, revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, has shown that American companies are not complying with the international data protection agreement, European lawmakers said. As a result, they want the deal scuttled. “Big data business say 'thank you' while EU citizens and consumers lose trust on their governments,” Jan Albrecht, a German member of the European Parliament, said. "If we don't stop the circumvention of EU laws by US companies and cancel Safe Harbor we will not only lose the sovereignty of the European Union but also the trust of citizens in the EU.”