The European Commission has told the United States more about the functioning of the Prism-spy. The US have some information, but not enough, says the Commission.
The European Commission has, since the Prism issue came to light met with American ministers, in which more clarity is created about the precautions in the program are built. However, that is not enough, said european Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström during a press conference.
Malmström wants to get more information from the United States, including more about the kind of information that is collected. Also should be more clear about the measures that are taken to prevent abuse. As the data of Europeans are processed, there must be proper precautions and guarantees, find Malmström. In addition, there must be sufficient supervision of judges as the parliament.
The Dutch european Commissioner Neelie Kroes, responsible for ict affairs, said Friday during an interview with TechCrunch that they will be committed to the privacy of Europeans. She calls the revelation of the Prism programme, whose existence until last week, Thursday was not known, a ‘wake up call’. With Prism collects the NSA information through the servers of U.s. technology companies like Google, Apple and Facebook. About the size of the project is uncertainty. According to the whistleblower that the Prism revealed, the NSA unlimited access to the servers of the companies, but according to other sources, the program is much more limited.