If Trump Spoils Privacy Pact, We'll Pull It, EU Official Warns
- Vera Jourova says she won’t hesitate to suspend privacy shield
- Privacy czar gives interview before meeting new administration
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Vera Jourova spent months working with the Obama administration on a deal to protect Europeans from digital surveillance by U.S. spies. With a new occupant now in the White House, the EU’s privacy czar says she’s prepared to rip up the pact if the Americans don’t adhere to its terms.
“If there is a significant change, we will suspend” the accord, Jourova, the European Union’s justice commissioner, said in a Bloomberg interview. “I will not hesitate to do it. There’s too much at stake.”