Eric Holder: European citizens should be able to sue U.S. over privacy violations

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Eric Holder: European citizens should be able to sue U.S. over privacy violations
By Reuters
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 13:56 EDT

ATHENS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s administration will push the U.S. Congress to enact legislation to give European Union citizens the right to sue in the United States if they think their private data has been released or misused, the U.S attorney general said on Wednesday.

Allegations of vast U.S. spying programs have complicated EU-U.S. ties at a delicate moment in transatlantic relations as Brussels and Washington negotiate a free-trade pact that would encompass almost half the world’s economy.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who was in Greece for a meeting with his EU counterparts, told reporters that the Obama administration is committed to making sure that “EU citizens would have the same right to seek judicial redress” on privacy issues that U.S. citizens would have.

Holder said he would work with Congress on related legislation. No bill has yet been introduced.