EU privacy watchdogs could seek US data pact review in two years

Too much information?: There are concerns about how much data US government agents can collect.

BRUSSELS: European privacy watchdogs could ask for a review in two years of a new transatlantic data pact designed to help companies such as Microsoft and IBM to shuffle around user data, according to three people familiar with the matter.

European data protection authorities are assessing whether to endorse the EU-US Privacy Shield, a framework agreed in February that will allow companies to move Europeans' data to the United States without falling foul of strict EU data transferral rules.