Yesterday the LIBE [Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs] committee met and agreed its final recommendations, which include some pretty dramatic demands — like this one: « Parliament’s consent to the final Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal with the US « could be endangered as long as blanket mass surveillance activities and the interception of communications in EU institutions and diplomatic representations are not fully stopped and an adequate solution for data privacy rights of EU citizens, including administrative and judicial redress is not found » […]
« MEPs call for the « immediate suspension » of the Safe Harbour privacy principles (voluntary data protection standards for non-EU companies transferring EU citizens’ personal data to the US). » […]
But a big omission is the lack of any formal call to offer political asylum to Edward Snowden […].
It’s worth emphasizing that all these demands are only recommendations at this stage: the final vote in the European Parliament will take place on 12 March, and could see amendments to any of them […].
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140213/08253226211/european-parliament-committee-says-no-to-taftattip-deal-without-respect-data-privacy-fails-to-offer-snowden-asylum.shtml