The European Union (EU) justice and rights commissioner has threatened to freeze crucial data-sharing arrangements with the United States after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations.
Viviane Reding, said that the US will have to adjust their surveillance activities to comply with the EU law and enable legal redress in the American courts for Europeans whose rights may have been infringed, the Guardian reports.
The commission has demanded, but failed to obtain, detailed information from the British government on how NSA's main partner, Britain's General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), surveillance practices are affecting other EU citizens.
According to the report, the EU has started reviewing existing data-sharing agreements with the Americans concerning commercial swaps between US and European companies, information traded aimed at suppressing international terrorist funding, and the supply of information on transatlantic air passengers.
The EU is drafting new Europe-wide data protection rules that will require the U.S. internet companies operating in the EU to obtain permission to transfer data to Washington and to restrict intelligence access to it, the report added.