A worker adjusts European Union and U.S. flags at the start of the 2nd round of EU-US trade negotiations for Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels November 11, 2013. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/Files
BRUSSELS: European Parliament lawmakers backed a data-sharing deal with the United States for security and terrorism investigations which aims to safeguard data exchanged between national authorities.
The deal follows allegations of mass US spying in 2013 which strained trans-Atlantic relations and triggered privacy concerns over what enforcement agencies plan to do with the huge amount of data they amass.
