The U.S. and UK governments have negotiated an agreement enabling their law enforcement agencies to request digital evidence across their borders more easily while guaranteeing the legal standards that protect the legal rights of their citizens. We urge governments around the world to engage with each other to request data stored across borders while ensuring protections of people’s rights over their data.
US technology companies will be required to hand over communications data to UK intelligence agencies under a proposed deal to help the fight against terrorism and serious crime.
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Governments must avoid conflicts of laws to ensure people’s data is protected and avoid a race to the bottom for everyone’s rights; we are encouraged by discussions between the US and UK.
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Under the proposed agreements described by Mr. Wiegmann, foreign investigators would be able to serve a warrant directly on a U.S. firm to see a suspect’s stored emails or intercept their messages in real time, as long as the surveillance didn’t involve U.S. citizens or residents.
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The Justice Department faced withering criticism from House lawmakers at a Thursday hearing for its opposition to Microsoft-backed legislation aimed at limiting the geographical scope of a U.S. warrant.
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Last week, the European Commission and the U.S. concluded tough negotiations to reach an important new agreement regarding cross-border data transfers, the so-called “E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield,” which replaces the 15-year-old Safe Harbor compact. We also learned the U.S. and the U.K. began negotiations regarding a new data-sharing agreement that shows great promise to establish a basis for other like-minded democracies to develop a more modern and workable legal framework for government access to citizens’ data.
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