The US government has set limits on the use of data collected in large quantities from EU citizens after a new US-EU clearinghouse agreement was reached this month, according to documents seen by Reuters.
The requirement to provide a clear explanation of the information that can be used by the US with the prohibition of indiscriminate and arbitrary use is essential to reach a new agreement that protects the privacy of EU Internet users.
Under the new agreement, Washington is working to create a new section within the State Department to deal with complaints and inquiries that are being transmitted by data protection agencies within the EU, as well as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism and the annual joint review of the agreement.
Robert Litt, general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said in a letter to the US Department of Commerce that data collected in large quantities could be used only for six specific purposes, including counterterrorism or cyber security.
The issue of privacy was a crisis between the European Union and the United States, in the wake of former CIA agent Edward Snowden in 2013 disclosing US practices with regard to collective government oversight.
Prompting the EU Supreme Court to eventually overturn the data exchange agreement in its former form with the United States and leave thousands of companies in a legal vacuum.
The data exchange agreement was used to exchange information in many industries such as credit card transactions, travel and e-commerce. It also allows American Internet companies to collect personal information about their users and deliver personally targeted ads such as Facebook and Google.
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