U.S. and EU in Final Stages of Negotiating Agreement on Private Data as European Legislator Sues

On July 1, 2008, as the United States and the European Union are close to reaching agreement on allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information about their constituents, Sophie in?t Vel, a Dutch member of Parliament, brought an action in the U.S. against the U.S. government for access to her personal records, such as credit card information and travel history, that she believes the U.S. government has collected...[more]