The word 'password' is pictured on a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
BRUSSELS: The European Union and the United States on June 2 signed a deal to protect personal data transferred across the Atlantic in a bid to fight crime and terrorism.
The so-called umbrella agreement signed in the Dutch city of Amsterdam follows five years of talks hobbled by European concerns about revelations of large-scale US snooping.
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